Jupiter’s moon, Europa, is slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon and is one of the most promising places to search for...
Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the sun. They’re so...
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter—mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only...
Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter’s largest moon....
Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky...
The discovery of the faintest known galaxies beyond the neighborhood of the Milky Way could help scientists develop universal models...
Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In...
Of all known planets, Earth is as friendly to life as any planet could possibly be—or is it? If Jupiter’s...
Neutron stars are the end products of massive stars and gather together a large part of the original stellar mass...
The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side....
An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has unveiled groundbreaking findings...
