NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has...
When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two...
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our...
A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, study finds
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even...
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day universe, with as much as two solar masses...
The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from...
Japan’s SLIM space probe entered the moon’s orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country’s first successful lunar...
Two McMaster astronomers have used recent deep imaging data from the James Webb Space Telescope to look 3.5 billion years...
The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile...
A pancake stack of radioactivity-sensitive films carried through the sky by a balloon was able to take the world’s most...
by Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo A team of researchers has...
In a hypothetical scenario, small, primordial black holes could be captured by newly forming stars. An international team, led by...
