Solar storms may cause faint northern lights across fringes of the northern United States over the weekend as forecasters monitor...
The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars’ farthest...
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. We know it exists...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed new details about Earth’s core-mantle boundary and similar...
Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you’re...
Professional and amateur astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the help of artificial intelligence, identifying a unique triple star...
Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own...
To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth...
Measuring the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, is an active area of research among astronomers...
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest...
