Space
Why is the sun's atmosphere millions of degrees hotter than its surface? New research provides tantalizing hints.
A new NASA-funded effort will explore the processes that make planets habitable—or turn them into barren wastelands.
A very nearby supernova could wipe all life off the face of Earth. But even farther away events may still leave their mark on the planet, new research suggests.
Finding the ingredients for a hot shower on the moon may have gotten a lot easier, new research suggests.
A new space mission will seek to better understand a time in the early universe when the first stars lived fast and hard, burning out and going supernova in the span of a few million years.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft rendezvoused with the asteroid Bennu in late 2018. Now, researchers think they know what this chunk of space debris is like on the inside.
Scientists at CUÂ Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the moon. Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the dawn of the cosmos.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·'s Jeremy Darling believes that a distant and powerful collapsed star could help scientists to unlock the secrets of dark matter.
In a moment for twos, the Janus mission will launch two identical spacecraft to rendezvous with two asteroid pairs millions of miles from Earth.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft observed tiny bits of material jumping off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. A new study tracks where those particles went.