Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust are seen to rise along the nebula’s wall ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its fate.

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

It is a significant discovery that may also prove that warm, salty water also flowed from the Martian mountain dubbed Mount ...

While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

An annual Christmas-themed program will wrap up semester programming at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan ...

NASA's Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million ...

A new study into the origins of the two Martian moons tends to blends the two most popular explanations, supercomputers had a ...

Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development I want to be ...

Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...