How can Martian regolith (often mistakenly called “soil”) be used to benefit human exploration? This is what a recent study published in the In | Space ...

New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces -- gravity’s pull and magnetospheric plasma -- split the radio emissions emanating ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their citation impact during the ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought." The Chandra team ...

For astronomers, technological advances are akin to getting better glasses—there’s often a big jump in resolution. It can make the world considerably clearer and, in the case of astronomy, expose some ...

On November 28, 1967, astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell at Cambridge spotted a tiny repeating mark on miles of radio data. That odd signal turned out to be from the first known pulsar, ...

Universe Today reports on new research examining whether geostationary and geosynchronous satellites produce unintended radio signals that could interfere with radio astronomy. Radio telescopes rely ...