The hypothesis is cosmological natural selection, and its power, beauty and logic provide what may be the best scientific explanation for the existence of complexity and life in the universe.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a previously unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the Vela supercluster.
Larger than the Grand Canyon, wider and deeper than East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Mercury’s newly-discovered “Great Valley” boggles the imagination. But it’s more than size that makes this geologic feature remarkable.
A consortium launched a crowdfunding campaign for an optical instrument that could search for planets in Alpha Centauri.
An international team of researchers have found another planet orbiting a red dwarf; in this case, a small super-Earth less than 33 light years away.
According to the mission schedule, the astronauts will remain in the space station for 30 days and spend a total of 33 days in space, making the mission the longest in space so far for China.
The growing space debris problem may have a flip side: What if we could recycle the junk for components of a mission to the Red Planet?
Gene expression data suggest that bacteria experience reduced glucose uptake and increased extracellular acidity in E. coli in space.
China's newest and biggest heavy-lift rocket was successfully launched today.
In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of matter.
Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely from satellite observations, using data from NASA
Bezos has talked about moving heavy industry off planet Earth to create a garden paradise on our home planet.
A rare triple-star system surrounded by a disk with a spiral structure has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma-led research team.
Tabby’s star has provoked so much excitement over the past year that UC Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen project is devoting hours of time on the Green Bank radio telescope to see if it can detect any signals from intelligent extraterrestrials.
USA already has nine spaceports designated for commercial operations.
