A rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun cuts across the Americas on Saturday, stretching from Oregon to Brazil,...
For the first time, an international group of astronomers have seen the heat glow of two ice giant planets colliding,...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. Most asteroids tend to be...
A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova....
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from...
If all goes well, on Thursday morning a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will be headed to a...
When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a...
ESA’s Gaia provides many new and improved insights into our galaxy and beyond with the release of five new data...
Within a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) lies a dramatic region of star birth—NGC 346,...
Solving the mystery of how planets like Earth were formed is an important question for understanding the origin of life....
The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is...
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead...
