India's XPoSat mission is now open for proposals from Indian scientists. Launched in January 2024, this X-ray observatory ...

In 1994, telescopes caught Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter, creating explosions larger than Earth and the most ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are made up of fast-moving, magnetized plasma.

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

Unistellar marks its 10th anniversary with a call to stargazers: observe 10 comets this autumn in partnership with the SETI ...

Students published their scientific findings about the physical properties of an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, which ...