Astronomers have barely scratched the surface of mapping the nearly endless stars and galaxies of the heavens. Using supercomputers, researchers...
New images of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet’s “spoke season” surrounding its equinox,...
A galaxy has been discovered that mirrors the very early version of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy,...
Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the solar system. The ring...
Among other discoveries made by the Curiosity rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars...
Over the course of billions of years, galaxies grow and evolve by forging new stars and merging with other galaxies...
The ongoing search for signs of life on Mars relies in part on terrestrial analogs—places on Earth closely resembling the...
New research from the University of Georgia reveals that artificial intelligence can be used to find planets outside of our...
Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity’s starry ambitions are...
A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was ‘just’ two billion years after the Big Bang,...
In 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically...
For the first time, researchers have recorded live and in atomic detail what happens to the material in an asteroid...
