Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Colorado's JILA, National Institute of Science and Technology, have conducted an ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

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So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

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The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...