NASA SMD Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program intends to solicit a suite of lunar science and technology instruments via ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

Researchers identified four autism sub-types linked to different genes, helping improve diagnosis and treatment.

Betelgeuse, easily visible to the naked eye and one of the largest stars near Earth, has captured human attention for millennia.

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, providing answers to the red supergiant's unusual brightness variations.

The universe and space are very vast subjects and we are still learning and studying them. We have made several discoveries, ...

Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.

Globular clusters like NGC 1786 are tightly packed groups of stars, often containing hundreds of thousands of stars bound ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected a previously unknown type of plasma wave above Jupiter’s north pole, revealing an unexpected interaction between different types of charged particles in the ...