Astronomy

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength."

"This is a snapshot of where we are very early in the scientific process."

A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously thought.

The Butterfly Nebula is a preview of the fate that will befall the sun in about 5 billion years.

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet, and they could hold clues about the origin of life.

Also, what the heck is a magnetofossil?

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout the solar system.

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars.

The NASA gamma-ray spacecraft Fermi may have enabled scientists to "see" dark matter, the universe's most mysterious stuff, for the first time.

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.