A new study shows that meteoroid showers increase the density of the moon’s extremely thin atmosphere, which could provide clues … More

It’s the end of an era. On Saturday December 19, the Cassini Saturn orbiter will make its final close pass … More

Just in time for the release of ‘Stars Wars: The Force Awakens’, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope team has released … More

Hidden in the darkness of the universe are billions of small, dim stars scientists call red dwarfs. Though none of … More

Perfectly timed for the release of "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens", this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged … More

Many stars end their lives with a with a bang, but only a few of these stellar explosions have been … More

Euclid, ESA’s dark universe mission, has passed its preliminary design review, providing confidence that the spacecraft and its payload can … More

(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers, led by Markus Janson of Stockholm University in Sweden, has discovered mysterious sharp symmetric features … More

The most massive black holes in the universe are often encircled by thick doughnut-shaped disks of material. This doughnut material … More