When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This is ...

Weak electric field discovered in Earth's atmosphere. Electric field crucial to understanding polar wind flow. Field could explain why Earth is habitable.

Microsoft and NASA have teamed up on Earth Copilot, a software tool that uses AI to simplify the process of analyzing Earth ...

Three ultra-massive galaxies from the early universe, named "red monsters" show star formation happened faster than believed.

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

In 2019, Dr. Kletzing with University of Iowa's Physics and Astronomy Department pitched the research study to NASA to ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

Mid-November is jam-packed with astronomy events, including the Leonid meteor shower and the alignment of Jupiter and Mars in the span of a few nights. The series of celestial sights will kick off on ...

While the Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth, the JWST orbits the sun with a keener eye for peering into deep space. “It’s more of a complement to the Hubble than it is a replacement,” said Andrew ...