In the absence of direct observations of extraterrestrial life, scientists often focus on searching for biosignatures, chemical by-products of life,...
Some of the largest and most sophisticated telescopes ever made are under construction at the Simons Observatory in Northern Chile....
Many factors can limit the size of a group, including external ones that members have no control over. Astronomers have...
On the morning of Saturday, Nov. 5, an international team of planetary scientists woke up with great delight to the...
A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub impact—which contributed to the mass...
The impact experiment conducted on the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission that took place two years ago resulted...
Earlier this year, astronomers were keeping tabs on data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an all-sky survey based at the...
Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to...
Earlier this year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible...
Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country’s space station, where they will overlap for several days with the...
SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private—and Japanese—lander to the Moon. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to...
Leveraging the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists ran 100 simulations exploring jets—narrow beams...
