Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

Earlier this month, astronomers observed a mysterious object with interstellar origins speeding through the inner solar system. It's an exceedingly rare occurrence, marking only the third confirmed ...

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes ...

Simply put, the moon is useful in a way that no other astronomical object is. That's because it's the nearest, most easily ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, hairnets, gloves and masks alongside the engineers and scientists building ...

The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but ...

"The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity," said Avi Loeb.

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough ...

A team of interdisciplinary UCF researchers are leading a NASA research project to prevent abrasive, harmful lunar dust ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...