A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, study finds
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even...
The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile...
For the first time, an instrument to find planets light years away was used on an object in the solar...
A team of international scientists have developed an ultra-high speed signal processor that can analyze 400,000 real time video images...
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...
A team of astrophysicists led by Lauren Weiss, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University...
The James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on...
Why are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains how these celestial vacuums grow
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
The Saturnian moon Enceladus presents a unique opportunity in our solar system to search for evidence of life, given its...
A study published today (Dec. 15) in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics reveals the discovery of two new planetary systems...
Solar rotation, a fundamental characteristic of the sun, is second in importance only to the Schwabe cycle, an approximately 11-year...
A NASA study expands the search for life beyond our solar system by indicating that 17 exoplanets (worlds outside our...
