On November 26, NASA’s InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long)…
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of…
The human genome contains regions that “code” for proteins, which means they have instructions to…
On December 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA’s Juno spacecraft will be…
Researchers have created tiny droplets of the ultra-hot matter that once filled the early universe,…
Yale scientists have taken a novel approach to unraveling the complex structure and regulation of…
3C196.1 is a massive elliptical galaxy, the brightest member of a cluster of galaxies about…
Using satellite observations of Antarctica to search for penguin guano (poo) may not sound like…
NASA’s Voyager 2 has officially exited the heliosphere, entering interstellar space. As the second human-made…
Colorful swirling clouds in Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt practically fill this image from NASA’s Juno…
Recently analyzed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has…
This stunning spiral galaxy is Messier 100 in the constellation Coma Berenices, captured here by…
Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA’s ‘NELIOTA’ project discovers a brilliant flash of light…
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable…
The SPECULOOS Southern Observatory (SSO) has been successfully installed at the Paranal Observatory and has…
Astronomers have detected an unusual X-ray outburst from a white dwarf in the Small Magellanic…
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…