Former President Jimmy Carter’s voice and legacy go far beyond Earth to live forever on two gold-plated copper discs, in ...

New data confirms Hubble's finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in the universe’s early days. Thanks to ...

(RNS) — When you look into the night sky, the naked eye can only make out 2,500 to 3,000 stars, five planets and maybe one to three galaxies ... times farther than the most distant stars in our galaxy ...

Carter was a religious man who lived by this simple civil religion. He not only saw the good in others but he practiced the good. He was far from the best president America has had but he was one of ...

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Astronomers find 140 trillion Earths’ worth of water near a black hole, revealing its role in galaxy evolution, quasar ...

The Soviet Union issued a postage stamp commemorating the 1971 Mars 2 mission, the first human-made object to reach the red ...

From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in ...

The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

According to astrophysicists, the Universe will evolve over time into a homogeneous soup where nothing ever happens.

Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...