According to an astrophysicist, David Kipping, the initial traces of extraterrestrial life would also be extremely dissimilar ...

Ohio University Chillicothe will host 'The Changing Night Sky' on March 5, featuring Michael Koop’s accessible look at our evolving universe.

Only about one third of students could correctly identify basic astronomical distance scales, with many unaware that stars ...

On 28 January, The Shaw Prize Foundation announced the establishment of The Shaw Prize in Computer Science, joining the ...

They're all around us: sensors and satellites, radars and drones. These tools form vast remote sensing networks that collect ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

The UK government is set to slash its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics by 30 percent in a move branded as ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Eliza Frankel, a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student studying physics and astronomy, was one of seven graduate students honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 247th ...