Scientists have found a “warm” planet with twice the mass of Jupiter orbiting a distant dwarf star....
Science & Astronomy
Europe is about to send a spacecraft on an epic quest to study Jupiter’s icy moons, a...
On April 11, 1960, astronomers began the first scientific experiment that would search for extraterrestrial life. Known...
Mercury will reach its highest point in the evening sky tonight (April 11), with the closest planet...
650 million years ago, Earth was covered in ice during an “extreme” 15-million-year-long ice age. New research...
Astronomers have identified a new kind of pulsar that consumes an orbiting companion, filling in a missing...
An artist’s illustration of the FarView Observatory, a proposed radio telescope that would be built on the...
An image of the Cepheid variable star RS Puppis. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage...
