Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One...
One of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, may not be on the brink of exploding as a...
Samples collected from the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 16 more than 50 years ago have...
October’s supermoon is the closest of the year and it’s teaming up with a comet for a rare stargazing two-for-one....
Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers...
An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles University (Czech...
Scientists believe they could have pinpointed the age of the largest and oldest impact basin on the moon to more...
A rare, extremely luminous X-ray outburst has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a...
A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center....
A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as...
While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a...
New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature...
