Despite not yet being fully operational, the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has made a remarkable discovery of 11,000 asteroids in space.
The most recent interstellar visitor was crisscrossing our galaxy for some 10 to 12 billion years before it came near the Sun.
A NASA rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet.
A newly dicovered archaeon from Shark Bay may preserve clues to the partnerships that helped complex life began.
It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon's far side — never seen before by human eyes — but a total solar eclipse.
US astrophysicists have caught sight of a potential primordial black hole using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
A group led by University of Chicago scientists has discovered a star that appears to date back to the second generation of stars ever formed.
New findings reveal that exoplanet L 98-59 d appears to belong to an entirely different class of planet containing heavy sulphur molecules within a permanet magma ocean.
Now Perseverance’s ground-penetrating radar (called RIMFAX) detected older river delta buried tens of meters beneath Jezero crater.
Decades of searches for alien transmissions may have been hamstrung by an overlooked problem: Space weather near distant stars could be distorting signals before they leave home.
A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
According to an analysis of the strange changes in a Sun-like star named Gaia-GIC-1, located around 11,600 light-years away, its strange behavior can best be explained by two baby planets colliding in its immediate vicinity.
Magnetars have been a leading candidate for the engine behind superluminous supernovae.
A new research shows that moons orbiting large free-floating planets could maintain water if they have hydrogen atmospheres. And they could stay habitable for billions of years.
Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa have discovered a powerful microwave laser beam firing off in the distant reaches of the cosmos.
