A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Rice researchers found that a carbon material known as monolayer amorphous carbon is eight times tougher than graphene.

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

Award-winning seismologist and prolific researcher departs Texas after 22 years, during which he carried out pioneering work ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...