NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 May 21 Deep Field:…

Insulating layers of 'gas hydrates' may keep buried water from freezing solid.

In the ongoing search for intelligent life, a new study recommends that we look for signs of an advanced civilization harnessing the power of neutrinos to create a beacon.

This image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASAs Mars 2020 mission, was taken by instruments on NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

A look inside the planet simulator in the Origins of Life laboratory at McMaster University. Within this chamber, the origins of life can be explored on different worlds (McMaster University). Have…

NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.

To do our research at Berkeley SETI, we collect signals from radio telescopes around the world, and analyze the signals for signs of intelligent life. And without needing any specialist knowledge, you…

To answer the iconic question “Are We Alone?”, scientists around the world are also attempting to understand the origin of life. There are many pieces to the...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently sweeping arcs between the asteroid's north and south poles.

SpaceIL, a non-profit organization, attempted to land its spacecraft in this ancient volcanic field on the nearside of the Moon. After a smooth initial descent, Beresheet made a hard landing on the…

Astronomers using the combined power of two Hawaii telescopes have taken groundbreaking, sharp new images of a distant planetary system that likely resembles a baby version of our solar system.

Appearances can be deceiving. This thick, cloud-rich atmosphere rains sulphuric acid and below lie not oceans but a baked and barren lava-strewn surface. Welcome to Venus.The second planet from the…

May 10, 2019 (This is Part 2 of a series on my summer 2019 dust devil fieldwork. See previous post Part 1.) Today my colleague Steve Metzger and I drove out to a playa in Nevada to test some of our…

Ejected rocks could serve as microbial lifeboats.

NASA's planet-hunting TESS mission has found its first Earth-size exoplanet in a nearby star system 53 light-years from Earth. Another exoplanet, a warm mini-Neptune, was found in the same system.

The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, causing the brittle surface crust to break as the Moon shrinks, forming faults where one section of crust is pushed up over a neighboring part. A new…

The Science Data Processor consortium for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) just completed the design work on the supercomputer that will handle all the data it collects.

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 May 14 Young Star…

A star located in the Milky Way has unusual chemical fingerprints, and scientists suspect that the stellar oddball arrived during a long-ago galaxy merger.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the stuff of science fiction, but turns out the real scientists are invested too.