The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

Eleven years after Musk promised an $85 million investment, SpaceX has surpassed that goal by about 16,000%. The company has ...

Astronomers used powerful telescopes to uncover galaxies of every possible shape and size. From nearby spirals like Andromeda ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...