Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

Scientists from NASA have developed a new equation that may help assess the chances of life existing on this planet. Could ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

New research reveals that high-energy radiation from active galactic nuclei could foster life on distant planets by ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

The late Archean period was a time of significant planetary change. Continents were growing, volcanic activity was reshaping ...