The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

A space telescope has captured the first ever evidence of a star "double detonation" as it reached the end of its life ...