Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

According to Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, there may be another facet to this mystery that hasn't yet been considered: Viking may indeed have ...

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — After over a decade of planning, Lowell Observatory’s new state-of-the-art discovery center is opening its doors this Saturday. Workers are buzzing with anticipation and ...

Winners of the awards see top science and maths talent continuing to emerge from Chinese universities US-based astronomer ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

For less than $400, it's possible to observe places like the star-forming regions at the center of our galaxy.

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...