Astronomers spent 13 years creating the largest two-dimensional color map of the universe, revealing nearly 4 billion cosmic ...

Water-rich environments capable of forming stars and planets may have existed only 100 million to 200 million years after the ...

On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark Sierra ...

NASA is set to launch the next-generation telescope into space on Sunday, to explore some of the universe’s biggest mysteries ...

This World Photography Day we look at some of the most iconic images captured by the US space agency, which have taught us ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, ...

CosmoCube will hide behind the Moon to escape Earth’s radio noise and search for a 13.5-billion-year-old signal from the ...

New simulations suggest that the first ingredients needed to build Earth-like worlds may have appeared just 100 million years ...

I live near a few volcanoes. One of them – Mount St. Helens – is bubbling with molten material that will probably gush out as lava someday. I asked my friend Johannes Hämmerli about lava. He’s an ...