The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life.

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

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A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a ...

"This whole thing happened because of an extra credit assignment for my astronomy class at UGA." Until we live in a world based purely on sliding doors, door hinges will remain some of the most ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Astronomers and space enthusiasts are in for a treat next month as we can expect a rare planetary parade. This celestial event will see Mercury joining Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

A network of interconnected "tunnels" links our solar system to distant galaxies ... It highlights the dynamic nature of the universe and its evolution. Researchers aim to explore these tunnels ...