This week, among a lot of other important findings, we learned that emperor cichlid fish have gaze sensitivity and dislike it ...

Analyzing images of the moon’s darkest areas from ShadowCam, a NASA instrument on the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, the study’s authors determined that, in most of the moon’s darkest craters, water ...

A multitude of new moons have made their presence known around Jupiter and Saturn, bringing their population of moons to 101 and 285, respectively.The new discoveries also bring the total number of kn ...

President Donald Trump and his NASA administrator are reviving the Pluto debate again — apparently at the urging of “Star ...

Pluto lost its planetary status in 2006. Nearly two decades later, people are still arguing about it — and now the argument has reached the White House. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told the ...

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores. The mass of these objects falls between planets and stars ...

An illustration of the collision. (Andy Tzanidakis) A distant star whose light suddenly flickered like a guttering candle has ...

Because contemplating the vast, never-ending universe now feels infinitely more manageable than reading another update about ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms. The way we learn the order of the planets is the classroom version of ...

Oxygen on exoplanets can be the result of simple chemical processes rather than biological ones.

Tierra Atacama reopens in San Pedro de Atacama after a $20 million renovation. Explore the the desert at Chile's iconic adventure lodge.

One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...