A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

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The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

A flash of energetic light lasts only ten seconds, yet it has completely turned around our understanding of the timeline for ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

A rare cosmic alignment has revealed three supermassive black holes blasting radio jets at the same time inside a tangled ...

Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have conducted a ...

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...