At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily need a boat ticket to experience it. While marine tours are popular, they ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Perchlorate, a toxic substance found in Mars dirt, could help the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii strengthen bonds between particles of regolith.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to find it around many of the most common stars in the galaxy. Earth-like ...

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Examining data from three satellites, scientists in Italy and Switzerland homed in on a canyon called Coprates Chasma – itself ...

Nilton O. Rennó receives funding from NASA, JPL, DARPA, and IARPA. Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms.

Under Samburu’s dark, silent skies, a growing wave of tourists is trading game drives for star beds and unforgettable nights ...