Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies — and even before the ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life on Earth.

Claire Chase, flutist for whom “Holy Liftoff” was written, appeared at the planetarium with the Multi-keyboard Ensemble for a ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Because carbon-14’s half-life is roughly 5,700 years ... Isotopes are only created after high-energy cosmic rays interact with the upper atmosphere’s oxygen and nitrogen.