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…
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black…
Mitochondrial disease is now thought to be the second most commonly diagnosed genetic disease worldwide,…
Using data from ESA’s Gaia stellar surveyor, astronomers have identified four stars that are possible…
When a coastal tide rolls out, it can reveal beautiful ripples in the temporarily exposed…
This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies towards the…
After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, scientists at international conservation charity ZSL’s Institute…