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

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For years, scientists believed Vesta, one of the biggest objects in the asteroid belt, was more than just an asteroid. They ...

ELVIS, a new holographic microscope developed at Portland State University, could help advance efforts to look for life on other worlds.

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Biomass is the first satellite equipped with a P-band synthetic aperture radar, which is capable of penetrating forest ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

The "creep test" was carried out on an inflatable habitat that would be carried to other planets to house humans.