ESCAPADE mission launches to Mars on November 9

Blue Origin will launch the 2nd flight of its huge New Glenn rocket no earlier than…

Brightest and most distant flare yet

Artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a giant star. Scientists…

Universe’s expansion is slowing down, not speeding up

Researchers used type Ia supernovas, similar to SN1994d pictured above in its host galaxy NGC4526, to…

Yeast on Mars could survive, unique new research shows

View larger. | Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as baker’s yeast. Could yeast survive on Mars? A…

Young Jupiter protected Earth from the sun, study finds

After the sun, Jupiter is the most massive object in our solar system. More than 1,000…

3 Earth-sized planets around double star surprise scientists

View larger. | Artist’s concept of the 3 Earth-sized planets in the TOI-2267 binary star system.…

Could Taurid fireballs – aka Halloween fireballs – bring a risk to Earth?

A new study suggests that – in the year 2032 – Earth will encounter a rick…

Super-Earth 18 light-years away sparks hope for life in space

View larger. | Artist’s concept of GJ 251 c, a potentially habitable world, a super-Earth type…

A view of the Milky Way galaxy in unprecedented radio color

View entire image here. | This is a selection of the new radio view of the…

New possible volcanic exomoon orbiting searing hot exoplanet

View larger. | In this image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft – captured in 1997 – an…