Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

“Now we know more precisely where to look for Galactic neutrinos. Our results show that most neutrinos are produced in stars ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

Now, according to new research published in Science, astronomers have managed to weigh a rogue planet for the first time. The ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

The spectra measurements enable astronomers to figure out these stars’ age, spin rate, temperature, and location, among other ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...