A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

A new study has shown how aspects of brain function change with age, revealing that excitatory processes in the brain ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

A recent study published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing highlights how China's FengYun-3 (FY-3) meteorological satellites have improved global tracking of land surface ...

In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we know today as X-rays. Realizing the technology could benefit the medical ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—From orbit, the beginning of a wildfire resembles a missile launch, an example of dual-use Earth science ...

New observations have revealed that a day on Uranus is slightly longer than previously thought. According to scientists, data ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.