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…
Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a…
A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a…
When the Zika virus arrived in the Americas in early 2015, it struck hard, infecting…
In this image many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and…
The geologic history of a planet is written in its layers. Erosion of the surface…
One of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s many scientific objectives is to study the planets…