The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into energy—may have been born in deep space long before Earth existed, according to new ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

This undated photo released by the European Space Agency shows the 35 meter-diameter deep-space dish antenna, DSA-2, in Cebreros, Spain, receiving the first signals from Venus Express. AP. 3 ...

Gorgeous deep space photo captures the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by glowing gas; ... This small planetary nebula, like others like it, was formed by gases in the outer layers of a dying star.

The "Blue Danube" broadcast is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ESA's creation, as well as 200 years since Strauss' birth. The waltz was notably absent when NASA launched 27 pieces of music ...