Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

"It is a wonderful and appropriate honor that Dr. Jill Tarter should be this year's recipient of the prestigious Green Sands Prize," said Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute. "Jill ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

Scientists detected gas at least five times hotter than previous theories had predicted inside a galaxy cluster from the ...

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NASA's twin Voyager probes are coming up on half a century in action, and as a result, their power supplies are dwindling. To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet ...

A new book by UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist and visual artist Nia Imara debuts tomorrow that explains the universe and traces how art has blended with science throughout human history. Painting the ...