Stardust left behind from the dawn of our solar system has allowed scientists to estimate the Sun ... are produced by stars and how those elements are expelled into the galaxy," she said. "These ...

"It will be prevalent not only in our solar system, but throughout the galaxy, too." First measured the emissivity - the extent to which a surface radiates the energy it encounters - of 15 basaltic ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

How long would it take you to travel to the edge of the Solar System? And why could this journey end with your slow and ...

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

These findings help put a quantitative answer to the Drake Equation, which was an equation created by Dr. Frank Drake to try ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

A recent study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics revealed an exciting new discovery: a ‘cosmic tunnel’ in ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.