A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power electrodeless plasma thruster, moving us one step closer to...
Cosmological observations of the orbits of stars and galaxies enable clear conclusions to be drawn about the attractive gravitational forces...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected by satellites orbiting Earth as luminous flashes of the most energetic gamma-ray radiation lasting...
For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA’s MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae...
A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently completed a deep...
A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the...
An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky...
An international research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has measured the size of a star dating...
NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east...
A new model that accounts for the interplay of forces acting on newborn planets can explain two puzzling observations that...
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar...
Better catch the moon’s disappearing act Tuesday—there won’t be another like it for three years. The total lunar eclipse will...
