There is water in many places on Mars, including most of both polar ice caps—all in the frozen form. But...
Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long cosmic explosions that each produce the energy equivalent to the sun’s annual output. More...
After NASA deliberately smashes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid next week, it will be up to the European Space...
Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a “hot spot” orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only...
Animations of the relative heights of the cloud tops of Jupiter reveal delicately textured swirls and peaks that resemble the...
The SETI Institute and its partner Unistellar are launching a new exoplanet detection program that will engage citizen scientists worldwide....
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit. The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos...
by Margaret W. Carruthers, Space Telescope Science Institute NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of...
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022,...
