NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

How thick is the ice shell on Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky. Astrophotographer Osama Fathi captured a gorgeous view ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...