Two Southwest Research Institute scientists were part of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team that observed a towering plume...
The Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS), led by Akshay Suresh, Cornell doctoral candidate in astronomy, is pioneering...
More than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. Over half were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space...
China launched a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station on Tuesday, with an eye to putting astronauts on...
The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans Monday to send a spaceship to explore the solar system’s main asteroid belt, the...
Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are...
Researchers discovered only relatively recently that black hole jets emit X-rays, and how the jets accelerate particles to this high-energy...
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, another step in what looks like a new space race
China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, in what would be another advance in what’s increasingly seen...
Precursors of the molecules needed for the origin of life may have been generated by chemical reactions promoted by iron-rich...
Much of our understanding of the universe and its mysterious phenomena is based on theoretical interpretations. In order to deepen...
A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC—using observations from NASA’s TESS telescope—presents the detection...
A planetary physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington is the lead author of a study that catalogs all...
