The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Known as SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, these two overlapping spiral galaxies lie over a billion light-years from Earth and were captured in a photograph by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

This week marks 35 years since Hubble first left Earth aboard the space shuttleDiscovery. Instead of receiving birthday ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

After the Flood, G-d gave humans permission to eat meat, but this was a concession, as if to say: Kill if you must, but let it be animals, not other humans, that you kill.

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy.

Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...