Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

The journey to understand the universe has taken many forms, but few efforts have been as transformative as unmanned space ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

A New Mexico-based astronomer is working to answer the oldest questions about the universe, thanks to multiple grants from ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space ...

Astronomers have discovered an important piece of the puzzle of how supermassive black holes were able to grow so quickly in ...

Delving into the behaviors of the Sun and protecting humans at home and beyond are top priorities, according to the National ...

Why is space so dark despite all of the stars in the universe? The question of why space is dark, even though it is filled ...

The council-run Oriel Môn museum and arts centre in Llangefn, Wales, normally provides insights into the island of Anglesey’s ...

A new study about Earth’s northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously ...

Harnessing this energy could make voyages to the outer reaches of the Solar System — or even to neighboring stars — feasible ...