The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

A new experiment set for an Aug. 14 launch to the International Space Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our ...

Space is the final frontier, right? That's what science fiction loves to say, and there's a lot of whimsy and wonder behind such a statement. But that's for a fairly good reason. After all, it's not a ...

On Nov. 6, NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed within 234 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The purpose of this close flyby was to accomplish a gravity-assist maneuver, in which the probe would ...

In a small office crammed with computers, Lynn Cominsky tries to figure out what's going on in the universe and how to explain it to the world. Spend a couple of hours with her and your mind reels ...

Sunlight contains lots of wavelengths that are arranged in an electromagnetic spectrum, or different kinds of light that are given off by objects. Humans can only see part of the spectrum, the part we ...

From powering a cleaner planet to unlocking the mysteries of space, three visionaries at Monday's TIME100 Talks in London explored a crucial challenge: how to transform promising breakthroughs in ...

In our wildest dreams, we’re able to warp across the universe to witness its mysteries and discover its quirks up close. In this series, we do exactly that: Regina and Emily blast off into space and ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors ...