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Pluto's heart-shaped basin may be as important for its climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate.
After gravitational waves and black holes, another one of Einstein's brilliant predictions has been confirmed.
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
If you want a seat, you'd best save up $50 million by 2024
This planet's surface is hotter than some stars.
Eye candy from the moon.
New research has uncovered the presence of at least thirteen ‘wandering’ black holes in dwarf galaxies. Something, that until recently was not believed possible.
You can choose out of 9 potential names proposed by school kids from all over the country.
The seas on Mars might have been much like those on Earth.
The dust grains were formed 5 to 7 billion years ago.
New Hubble study takes us one step closer to understanding the mysterious dark matter.
Water vapor saturation in the Martian upper atmosphere is much greater than expected, which entails more water is escaping into space over time.
Scientists are a step closer to understanding ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky.
The exoplanet orbits a star in the habitable zone and may be covered in oceans.
Officially, SpaceX now operates the world's largest commercial satellite fleet.
Earth's sister planet might also enjoy a bit of volcanism.
Some of NASA's space probes have already left the solar system but it might take tens of thousands of years before any arrive in a sensible vicinity to a star system.
A rare form of an iron-carbide mineral was found by researchers
The mission was a bust -- but we got the spaceship back!
Martian auroras are linked to water loss on the red planet's surface, which is why the connection is quite important to scientists.
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
The launch of the ESA’s CHEOPS satellite has been postponed as a result of a software error, reports the University of Bern.
A new mapped the surface of a pulsar, and it may cause astronomers to rewrite their textbooks.
Astronomers think that the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have a companion -- and that could teach us more about how galaxies form and evolve.
Hemp and coffee cell cultures will grow for 30 days in microgravity.
A new map of water ice trapped beneath Mars' surface could inform astronauts where they should land.
New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon's icy surface.
As the Hans Sigrist Prize is claimed by Ignas Snellen for groundbreaking exoplanet research, the message is clear--the search for other worlds is heating up.
Scientists sent extraordinarily muscular mice to the International Space Station to study how microgravity affects muscles and bones.
The ESA's CHEOPS satellite launches later this month with the mission to select exoplanets suitable for in-depth investigation.
A dim patch in an otherwise bright galaxy is the epicenter of a supermassive black hole whose mass is 40 billion times greater than that of the Sun.
Parts from the craft landed in almost two dozen locations spanning several kilometers.
Black holes and neutron stars are the densest and most mysterious objects in the universe, and researchers may have figured out the source of the light they emit.
New observations confirm that main asteroid belt object Hygiea is round. It now fulfills all the requirements to graduate from asteroid to dwarf planet.
The US space agency hopes to go back to the moon by 2024
A new theory suggests that planets could form in dense dust and gas clouds surrounding supermassive black holes at the centre of active galaxies.
One of NASA's most forgotten missions to the moon, but also one of the funniest
Very, very probably wrong.
Only 122 satellites have already been launched and the impact is already evident, they claim.
This immense simulation is so complex that scientists have observed phenomena that had not been programmed explicitly in the code.
This is one of the most important findings of the decade.
Titan is a lot like the Earth... except it's nothing like the Earth.
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy 5 million years ago.
The mystery of how complex carbon molecules--buckyballs-- came to be detected in interstellar space may have been solved.
The findings could have important implications for deep space missions.
Fingers crossed.
Oxygen is rising and falling with the seasons unpredictably.
The wine is part of an experiment on aging that could improve food storage in the future.
Curiosity is the only rover left on Mars -- and this haunting photo it recently beamed to Earth perfectly describes the feeling.
New research has provided some surprising answers regarding the origins of globular clusters the oldest visible objects in the Universe — some of them may not be so ancient at all.
