A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

This is because most asteroids never experienced the ‘differentiation’ that took place on planets such as the Earth.

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Astrophysicists developed a theoretical model that could be used to estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

One of these previous iterations is the Hubble Space Telescope, known for its advanced capabilities but also its limitations. The Hubble is much closer to Earth than the JWST, orbiting about 320 miles ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...