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 ...

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.

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.

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

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

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

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...