Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which…
The first unbiased survey of protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars in the Taurus star-forming region…
Yale scientists are part of a new international experiment that challenges previous claims about the…
The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the sun,…
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four…
A class of cancer drugs called protein kinase inhibitors is one of the most effective…
Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth’s energy needs,…
Most stars with the mass of the sun or larger have one or more companion…
After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion kilometers, NASA’s…
This series of images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures changing cloud formations across Jupiter’s southern…
The thinnest flake, just one atom thick, has provided scientists at Yale and the Brookhaven…
This image, from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), reveals thousands…
Using a larger dataset than all previous studies on the subject combined, researchers found a…
Discovery is the first detailed observation of the environs of a massive black hole outside…
Scientists using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have measured all the starlight produced…
Based on computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers…
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with…
Gazing across 300 million light-years into a monstrous city of galaxies, astronomers have used NASA’s…