Magnetic fields are everywhere in our solar system. They originate from the sun, planets, and moons, and are carried throughout...
An international team of scientists led by a University of Sydney astrophysicist has discovered evidence the Andromeda galaxy is a...
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...
Earth’s core, the deepest part of our planet, is characterized by extremely high pressure and temperature. It is composed of...
Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space opportunity: to name a...
Secrets hide in the twinkling of stars. A research team led by scientists at the Flatiron Institute and Northwestern University...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a nearby...
Within a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) lies a dramatic region of star birth—NGC 346,...
NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly to the moon by the end of next year, including...
In the 1990s, NASA satellites built to spot high-energy particles coming from supernovae and other celestial-sized objects discovered a surprise—high...
Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went...
NASA will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency’s first blast off from a...