A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with...
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For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to...
The origin of our sun, and all the planets, comets and asteroids that orbit it, can be...
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The...
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s...
Getting to Mars takes a really long time, about nine months using today’s rocket technology. This is...
The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is...
The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation’s largest estuary...
An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves toward a better understanding of...
About 66 million years ago—perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May—an asteroid smashed into our planet.
Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical...
Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster—spanning nearly 20 million...
A trio of heliophysicists and satellite trackers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Goddard Planetary...
When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in...
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of...
String theory has long been touted as physicists’ best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the...
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the...
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is heading to the International Space Station on his first mission as...
When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human...