Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens ...

As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...

Penn State’s strength in space science comes from the depth of our long-standing scientific leadership and the breadth of ...

Humanity has only just begun to scratch the surface of its potential, yet some scientific theories suggest we could one day ...

JWST and radio interferometry caught six massive galaxies colliding 12 billion years ago, while a young supermassive black ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a ...

Every second, hypervelocity collisions may be blasting tiny flecks of Earth into space. Some of those grains, small enough to ...

Anton Wallner from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), whose project SUPREME has been awarded €3 million to reconstruct the history of nearby cosmic explosions over the past 500 million ...

After it launches in August, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to survey more of the sky than any space ...