The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

The scientists also observed that ice and gas giants like Uranus may be natural laboratories for learning about atmospheres. This absence of solid ground means that cloud formation, storm development, ...

"There’s a high probability that if you want to think about the most hospitable place where you want life to be outside the ...

NASA had a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere and rings when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, ...

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...