Western graduate students win NASA Space Apps Challenge for their app that shows the orbits of near-Earth objects that could threaten space infrastructure.

Hubble uncovers the blue lurker star, offering rare insights into triple-star system evolution and stellar mergers ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

Research led by the University of Geneva challenges current theories about the formation of 'hot Jupiter' planetary systems.

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, these planets were thought to accrete or eject any other planets present.

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, these planets were ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, ...

A powerful new tool comes online this year that could help astronomers locate the mysterious planet hiding somewhere beyond ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a ...

The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions.