An international consortium of astronomers, including staff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, has successfully unraveled the intricate formation...
Parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking and rising at different rates due to factors ranging from...
Thanks to the latest Gaia satellite catalog from the European Space Agency (ESA), an international team led by astronomers from...
After a seven-year wait, NASA scientists on Tuesday finally pried open a space probe carrying the largest asteroid samples ever...
Gigatons of greenhouse gas are trapped under the seafloor, and that’s a good thing. Around the coasts of the continents,...
Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption...
Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets...
Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of...
Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets—”the holy grail...
In the high desert of Nevada, Elizabeth Silber watched NASA’s Sample Return Capsule from OSIRIS-REx descend into Earth’s atmosphere on...
In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star....
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In...
