Occurring in galaxies located billions of light-years away and lasting anywhere from seconds to hours, FXTs have proved difficult to trace back to their sources. Despite this, astronomers have ...

NASA has found another big cosmic structure orbiting a red dwarf - and this one allows the scientists to study due to the current temperature inside.

Van Dishoeck talks about some of the key unanswered questions in astrochemistry, including how complex molecules form on the tiny specks of dust in interstellar space. We chat about the recent growth ...

Scientists from NASA and Penn State are using deep-space communications to unearth the most likely locations of extraterrestrial intelligence.<br /><br /> ...

The Observatory is home to the largest optical telescope in the state of New York, a computerized f/4 Newtonian reflector with a 1-meter (40-inch) primary mirror. The telescope, designated the NTT-40, ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a kinetic impactor—a projectile intent on transferring its momentum to an asteroid ...

Could the world’s most sophisticated space telescope still be lacking moons in our solar system? The James Webb Space ...

Rabat — A Moroccan scientist has led a groundbreaking discovery that adds a 29th moon to Uranus. Maryame Al Moutamid, a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headed the team that ...

( Nanowerk News) Southwest Research Institute led a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) survey, discovering a previously unknown tiny moon orbiting Uranus. A team led by SwRI’s Dr. Maryame El Moutamid ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” said Matthew Tiscareno, a senior research scientist at ...

If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new ...