Astronomers have detected signs of complex organic molecules, the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it, in ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

Learn more about the prebiotic molecules who's origins come from deep space.

Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

Take a photograph of the night sky, far away from any urban lights, and you stand a good chance of capturing the telltale streak of a satellite passing overhead. For any ground-based telescope ...

Derek Wallentinsen stood atop Inscription Rock in El Morro National Monument on the night of May 23, 2019, taking photographs of the star-filled sky to document the darkness. A ranger at the time, he ...

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

This program is made possible with support from Astronomy Magazine, the Montana Department of Commerce, Visit Southwest Montana, Visit Helena Montana, the Montana Space Grant Consortium and ...

The internet and the digital revolution have rendered the fax obsolete, a device introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1964 that ...