NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever…
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed…
According to researchers at Yale Cancer Center, a cancer drug thought to be of limited…
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50…
NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the features characteristic of so-called elliptical…
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window into the universe, with the…
The best hope for people with an inherited form of kidney disease that causes kidney…
Massive clusters of galaxies, some with more mass than a hundred Milky Way galaxies, have…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter…
For the first time, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during…
A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinosaur…
Blue supergiants are rock ‘n’ roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them…
The Smithsonian today made available a new online interactive that allows users to explore a…
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot…
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense…
Dotted across the sky in the constellation of Pictor (The Painter’s Easel) is the galaxy…
Why do our eyes tend to be drawn more to some shapes, colors, and silhouettes…
Few of the universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. These limelight-hogging celestial…