Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting develo
Three teenage Texas model rocketeers beat out teams from France and the U.K. to claim top honors at
Looking at the Himiko Galaxy as it was just 800 million years after the big bang offers a glimpse at
Segue 2, one of dozens of "companion" galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, is now the smallest galaxy
A side benefit of NASA's Curiosity rover mission is that we now know about how much radiation an int
Isotopic analysis of water trapped in volcanic glass in lunar samples show that the moon has more wa
After nine (Earth) years of slowly traversing Mars, Opportunity broke the U.S. off-world rover recor
Silicon-rich rocky material was found around white dwarfs in the Hyades star cluster by the Hubble S
Based on the Milky Way's effect on the motion of a nearby dwarf galaxy, our galaxy seems to have mor
NASA's orbiting Kepler telescope recently spotted three exoplanets in or near their stars' so-called
Using imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2007, amateur astronomers located an ob
Saturn's rings and moons contain a uniform distribution of water ice, which seems to reflect their c
New data from the European Planck satellite indicate that the universe is 13.8 billion years old rat
An incomplete version of Chile's ALMA telescope array found that star formation was in full swing ea
A study of the star HD 140283, only about 190 light-years away from us, finds that it formed in shor
The Van Allen Probes recently found a third belt of charged particles circling Earth, which was then
Heat radiating from an asteroid imparts a tiny push to the rock, meaning that we could subtly steer
The Russian city of Chelyabinsk was awakened on February 15 when a meteor exploded overhead, with an
Even as a few of its sensors cause problems, the Curiosity rover became the first robotic visitor to
The star TW Hydrae should be too old to still have planets forming around it, but its gas and dust i
Tree-ring data from A.D. 774 show a sudden spike in radioactive carbon 14, pointing to a burst of ch
