Dramatic atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this view from NASA’s Juno…
The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing…
The last screw is tightened and a private Moon lander is packed in the fairing…
In a research breakthrough funded by NASA, scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like…
Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of regions with intense magnetic fields on the…
A compilation of scientific results from The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, reveals new…
Astronomers call it “the moon that shouldn’t be there.” After several years of analysis, a…
Astronomy & Astrophysics published the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have…
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells…
TRAPPIST-1 is a system of seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star about 120…
Since Pluto’s demotion from a fully-fledged planet to a dwarf planet, Neptune holds the title…
Yale professor of geology and geophysics Jun Korenaga will take part in a new, NASA-supported…
New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may have helped solve the Universe’s “missing mass”…
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the smoking gun of a…
The option to measure the gravitational waves of two merging neutron stars has offered the…
NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our…
A study published last year in the journal Science suggested liquid water is present beneath…
This week’s Picture of the Week highlights another of the 20 images to come out of ALMA’s first…