NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a...
One of the primary goals of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is to study the formation and evolution of...
SpaceX will try again to launch its mega rocket into orbit after first attempt ended in an explosion
SpaceX is aiming for another test flight of its mega rocket on Friday after getting final approval from federal regulators....
Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and the past of another—our...
A new study could explain the “missing” exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres...
Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see...
After a distant star’s explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over...
A new study using data from the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) instrument on the International Space Station has found evidence...
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have...
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system...
Researchers from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the evolution of separated strands within the apparent...
The second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed have been discovered in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster,...
