A supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe ...

They discovered that the Chandra spectrum closely matched what they expected from models of black holes expanding faster than ...

NASA has faced threats of losing a significant portion of its funding since the beginning of the Trump administration. A ...

NASA confirms its 6,000th exoplanet, revealing a universe of alien worlds — from lava planets to Styrofoam-light giants. With ...

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest ...

Lara Waldrop, professor in Engineering, will lead the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission by a ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

A retreating glacier has revealed a new island in Alaska, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Glaciologist Mauri S.

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...