When we gaze into the night sky, we see a tiny fraction of what lies beyond our Solar System. In the vastness of space, our Sun and its planets are but a speck of dust. There are thousands of stars ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Telescopes allow scientists to analyze starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered carbonate-rich rocks on Mars, offering insights into the planet's past and possibly explaining why life has never been found there.