On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and ...