For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet ...

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

A new study suggests that a group of cells, key for the health of blood and the immune system, are vulnerable to aging-like ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

NASA reveals its strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars after years of experiment with Perseverance rover's Cheyava ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

Despite being one of the largest animals on the planet, the limited population and vast territory of the North Atlantic right whale make tracking ...