NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

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While "Star Trek" is pretty consistent compared to a lot of science fiction franchises, a few episodes have turned ...

Scientists have measured that Jupiter releases more internal heat than it absorbs from the Sun, based on observations of its structure, rotation, and atmospheric behavior.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

This composite image was weeks in the making, as Horálek’s two "crossings" happened months apart. Mars traced its path ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...