Mineral samples collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft are helping UCLA space scientists and colleagues better...
An international team of scientists, including NYU Abu Dhabi researcher Nikolaos Georgakarakos and others from the U.S., Japan, and China,...
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have unveiled a first-of-its-kind map that could help answer...
As space missions delve deeper into the outer solar system, the need for more compact, resource-conserving and accurate analytical tools...
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute Research Scientist Dr. Danna Qasim posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have...
Researchers have confirmed the presence of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space...
As you are reading this, more than 400 miles below you is a massive world of extreme temperatures and pressures...
Understanding how dust grains form in interstellar gas could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop useful...
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets...
A new theory for how rocky planets form could explain the origin of so-called “super-Earths”—a class of exoplanets a few...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star....
Scientists have used the subtle movements of a distant star to help discover a new exoplanet—which is displaying signs of...
