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…
The results are rolling in from Caltech’s newest state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, which began operations at…
Dust particles form as dying red giant stars throw off material and become part of…
An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of…
New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years…
New research undertaken at Northumbria University shows that the Sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than…
NASA’s Kepler space telescope may be retired, but the discoveries continue to rack up for…