Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously...
The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, dealing a blow to the continent’s bid...
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown...
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these...
At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to...
Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according...
Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southwest Forestry University have developed an advanced neural...
Scientists have long thought that our solar system’s ocean worlds, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, may...
The moon will cross in front of the sun for around four hours on Saturday, creating a partial solar eclipse...
Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is challenging...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles...
Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
