A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable wetter episodes may have precipitated the transition from…
NASA is working to resume science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft…
Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for…
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast…
More than one million people die annually from cerebral malaria, the most lethal form of…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a spiral galaxy named Messier 95…
NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase…
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way…
Astronomers typically study objects that are visible night after night or explode suddenly, like supernovas,…
Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory…
New research emerging from the final orbits of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft represents a huge leap…
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could…
Researchers in Canada, the United States, and Europe have developed a new way to remotely…
International Space Station Commander Alexander Gerst has a better view of our home planet than…
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The new…
Many microbes have an enzyme that can convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. This reaction…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its first Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-1) today putting it on course…
A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light…