The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean ...

Fifteen thousand light years away something is semaphoring into space. And scientists are eager to solve its riddle.

While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones — called submesoscale eddies — are notoriously ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...