When NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40...
Research by astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) could revolutionize our understanding of...
Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to...
Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two...
Using the set of first-light observations from the new William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) wide-field spectrograph, a...
A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How...
Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through...
For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies...
SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s...
Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the early...
Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence...
Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it...
