Space

Astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to make the first direct image of a dusty, doughnut-shaped feature...

Little is known about the inner structure of the Moon, but a major step forward was made by a University of Rhode Island scientist...

A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy with almost no dark matter. In 2018, the researchers published...

Thanks to an impressive collaboration bringing together data from ground-based telescopes, all-sky surveys and space-based facilities — including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope —...

Since it’s a discovery in the mid-19th century, Neptune has consistently been a planet of mystery. As the farthest planet from our Sun, Neptune-...

GRAVITY, a second generation instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) used optical interferometry and observed an exoplanet named HR8799e with clouds...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has recently captured a bed of pebbles that look like they could be sitting along a riverbed right here on...

In a new study. scientists have confirmed the existence of a new, huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as a planet-sized...

Imagine walking at dusk under a blue sky that is gradually turning black. Twinkling stars are beginning to appear here and there. And suddenly...

In a new citizen science project launched today—known as AstroQuest, scientists are appealing for public help to study images of galaxies and unravel the...

A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation. One such pulsar PSR J0002+6216 has a radio-emitting...

Bennu is close to Earth, it's really old and well-preserved. It might even help us in our search for clues to the origins of...