Ever wonder how Earth scientists examine rocks? We cut them up and throw them under a microscope ... and then everything ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

Ready for a show? On the night of March 13 into the early hours of March 14, a total lunar eclipse will occur as the moon moves into the Earth's umbra, or shadow, turning the bright white lunar ...

The scientists decided that the planet’s red color more closely matches that of iron oxides containing ... “Some of the samples already collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover and awaiting return to ...

Astronomers have discovered not one, but four tiny planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our cosmic neighbor. These planets, each ...

MAROON-X measures the color of the light so precisely that ... More information: Ritvik Basant et al, Four Sub-Earth Planets Orbiting Barnard's Star from MAROON-X and ESPRESSO, The Astrophysical ...

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

MAROON-X measures the color of the light so precisely ... Most of the rocky planets we've found so far are much larger than Earth, and they appear to be fairly similar across the galaxy.

Planets are hundreds of thousands of times closer to the Earth than stars ... than it normally is and have a distinctive pinkish color. The planets closest and furthest from the sun may either ...

We see the Earthrise image in color on the cover ... Only in this case the planet, seen anew, is Earth. A picture caption with an earlier version of this review misstated how far away the ...