6 billion years old and home to more than 100 billion stars. This reality suggests there is likely a mind-boggling number of ...
NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...
A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past year repeatedly diving into the sun’s outer atmosphere at speeds no human-made ...
Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...
Our solar system may be the odd one out. Across the Milky Way, astronomers keep finding super-Earths, planets larger than our own but smaller than Neptune, in staggering numbers. They are the galaxy’s ...