Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely...
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map...
A team of physicists from the University at Albany has proposed scientifically rigorous methods for documenting and analyzing Unidentified Anomalous...
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two galaxy clusters have...
The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building...
For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency...
In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and...
When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant...
My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud...
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years...
