A new study by researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that the chemicals necessary for life as we know it might be limited on Europa and other "ocean worlds".
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Up for a challenge? Planetary action is certainly heating up this summer: Jupiter passed opposition last month, Saturn does so in June, and Mars reaches favorable viewing next month. And with dazzling Venus in the west and Mercury to joining it starting in late June, we'll soon have all of the naked eye classical planets in the evening sky.
Now, I want to turn your attention towards a potential naked eye object, you've probably never seen: asteroid 4 Vesta.
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According to a new study by a team of astronomers, globular clusters are several billion years younger than previously thought.
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The NOAA's GOES-17 satellite, a second-generation Earth-observing satellite, recently released its "first light" pictures of Earth.
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A tiny crashed exploded above the skies of Africa on Saturday, June 2nd. It turns out, it had been discovered just hours before impact.
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The kilonova event that took place last year, where two neutron stars merged, is now believed to have formed a black hole.
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After reviewing data from the New Horizons mission, an international team of scientists determined that Pluto has dunes made of grains of methane
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Is there any way we can hope to communicate with aliens? Will they have a concept of language as we understand it, or something even more alien?
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A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow and the Ukraine have proposed a self-eating rocket as a way to cut the costs of individual launches.
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At this year's National Space Society's International Space Development Conference, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon Prime would be picking up The Expanse.
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In a new study led by the Lowell Observatory, a team of researchers indicate how the next-generation Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) could find the elusive Planet 9 (Planet X)
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An international team of scientists recently created a unified model that shows what happens when stars are consumed by a Supermassive Black Hole.
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We're in the midst of a parade of planets crossing the evening sky. Jupiter reached opposition on May 9th, and sits high to the east at dusk. Mars heads towards a fine opposition on July 27th, nearly as favorable as the historic opposition of 2003. And Venus rules the dusk sky in the west after the setting Sun for most of 2018.
June is Saturn's turn, as the planet reaches opposition this year on June 27th, rising opposite to the setting Sun at dusk.
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Virgin Galactic recently conducted its second successful powered test flight of the VSS Unity, bringing the company one step closer to its goal of space tourism.
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Footage obtained from Bill Ingall's melted camera shows exactly how flames triggered by the launch it was covering consumed the camera
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A team of Canadian astronomers viewed an eclipsing binary pulsar and used the gas as an "interstellar lens" to capture the most high-resolution observations of a pulsar ever.
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A new study conducted by researchers from the Southwest Research Institute indicates that Pluto could have formed from a billion comets
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Two upcoming missions - NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the ESA's Solar Orbiter - will get closer to the Sun than ever before in the hopes of unlocking its secrets.
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After conducting their own tests on the EM Drive, a team from UT Dresden reported that any thrust coming from the engine might be due to interaction with Earth's magnetic field.
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A team of astronomers, using the Herschel Observatory, recently observed a series of laser emissions coming from the ant nebula.
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Have you been keeping an eye on Sol lately? One of the top astronomy stories for 2018 may be what's not happening, and how inactive our host star has become.
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According to a new study from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the pressure at the center of a proton is one-hundred times greater than at the core of a neutron star!
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NASA's MarCO Cubesats, which are currently on their way to Mars with the InSight Lander, recently snapped a "pale blue dot" photo of Earth and the Moon.
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According to a new study by a team of Chinese astronomers, fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be caused by the collapse of normal matter-crusts around "strange stars".
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Using old data from the Galileo spaceprobe, a team of NASA scientists has found more evidence of plume activity on Europa's surface.
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Based on the 2nd Gaia Data Release, a team of astronomers were able to directly detect and compile information on over 1000 white dwarf stars in our galactic neighborhood.
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In a series of new studies, an international team of researchers found that if we live in a multiverse, it is likely to be as habitable as our own.
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A new study by a UK scientists takes a look at the different means of interstellar travel, and considers the pros and cons of each.
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Incoming: The Earth-Moon system has company tonight.
The Asteroid: Near Earth Asteroid 2010 WC9 is back. Discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey outside Tucson, Arizona on November 30th, 2010, 2010 WC9 was lost after a brief 10 day observation window, and was not recovered until earlier this month. About 71 meters in size, 2010 WC9 is one of the largest asteroids to pass us closer than the Earth-Moon distance.
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When the Mars 2020 rover arrives on the Red Planet, it will include a Mars Helicopter - a concept that will prove the viability of autonomous helicopter explorers.
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Using data from the Chandra X-ray observatory, a team of scientists have found evidence that indicates that thousands of black holes may reside near the center of our galaxy.
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A new study by an international team of astronomers has demonstrated with scientific confidence what will happen to our Sun when it reaches the end of its life cycle.
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According to a new study by a team of Earth scientists and geologist, the way Venus and Jupiter affect Earth's orbit is the most predictable and stable indicator of periodic changes in our climate.
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A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that Mars' growth was stunted due to the orbital instability of the planets in the outer Solar System.
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