University of Leicester scientist Dr John Bridges contributed to a new report showing how rocks examined by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity reveal details of an ancient Martian stream

University of Leicester scientist Dr John Bridges contributed to a new report showing how rocks examined by NASA's Mars…

Simulations based on GRAIL data show how gravitational anomalies developed early in lunar history.

Ever since the first satellites were sent to the moon to scout landing sites for Apollo astronauts, scientists have noti…

University of Leicester scientists involved in international discovery of neutron star “anti-glitch” using NASA’s Swift satellite

Using observations by NASA's Swift satellite, an international team of astronomers has identified an abrupt slowdown in…

The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's

This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sk…

When a massive star runs out of fuel, its core collapses to form a neutron star, an ultradense object about 10 to 15 mil…

Three of Xenics’ new Xlin-1.7-3000 SWIR InGaAs detectors are aboard the ESA satellite Proba-V to map vegetation patterns…

Shedding light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the cloudy worlds of Uranus and Neptune, scientists at the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab have discovered that the massive jet streams and weather phenomena associated with them appear to be ripples on the surface rather than extending deep into the planets' interior.

Shedding light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the cloudy worlds of Uranus and Neptune, scientists at the UA’s Lu…

NASA has given the final approval and go-ahead for OSIRIS-REx, the first-ever sample return mission to an asteroid led by the United States.

For the first time in space-exploration history, the mission will travel to and return pristine samples of a carbonaceou…

A UK-Canadian team of scientists has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for…

Durham University astronomers have played a key role in research using a powerful new telescope to bring images of the d…

Taking before and after pictures of Martian terrain, researchers of the UA-led HiRISE imaging experiment have identified almost 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results suggest Mars gets pummeled by space rocks less frequently than previously thought, as scientists relied on cratering rates of the moon for their estimates.

Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade, using images from t…

Physicists analysing observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have shown that galaxies in the early Universe wer…

A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has just discovered an exoplanet using…

A team of Vanderbilt astronomers headed by Keivan Stassun will play a key role in the planet-seeking space telescope tha…

A roughly 3.5-mile high Martian mound that scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might actually have f…

Compact galaxy packs big star-making punch

Astronomers have found a galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolut…

A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole.

A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole.

Nearly all the water present in Jupiter's upper atmosphere today comes from the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided w…

A team including Dr Mat Page has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than ou…