Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disk galaxy seems as orderly as present-day...
It is a major goal of astronomical research to find planets other than Earth that might be suitable for sustaining...
A Canadian-led international study has revealed new insights into the atmosphere of GJ 9827 d—an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren’t as many as we thought. Using...
NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will...
NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went...
A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed...
Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe’s Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday,...
In the 1990s, NASA satellites built to spot high-energy particles coming from supernovae and other celestial-sized objects discovered a surprise—high...
Gas swirls around a black hole due to its intense gravity, forming an accretion disk. These accretion disks, being among...
As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet’s...
Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from...
