The Great Red Spot is a gigantic storm, twice the size of Earth, that has swirled for centuries. It’s just one of many on the ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

From left, UVA’s Scott Doney and Kazlin Mason and UVA Wise’s Donald W. Sorah Jr. are among the 12 winners of the State ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...