A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to their stars that a year ...

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the "cenotectic." This concept helps determine the conditions under which liquid ...

One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data ...

The Kenya Space Agency on Wednesday identified a large metal object that fell from space earlier this week to likely be a ...

A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and ...

This vast reservoir resides near a supermassive black hole, approximately 20 billion times more massive than our sun.

Pictures from the International Space Station do not disappoint, from comets and northern lights to giant hurricanes and ...

The quasar, named APM 08279 5255, contains water vapour equating to 140 trillion times the volume of Earth’s oceans ...