NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. This composite image, from NASA Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth ...

ESO’s HAWK-I infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has captured a deeper view of the Orion Nebula’s core. Looking like an interstellar Frisbee, the dark feature in these two ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

NASA classifies Bennu as a medium-sized asteroid, measuring about one-third of a mile (500 metres) across. While far smaller ...