The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new...
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original...
Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams...
Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy, a bit...
Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That’s the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant professor at...
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying...
Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds....
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal...
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except...
The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that...
Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars...
NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera,...
