Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers conduct final inspections on a neutrino Detection Unit (DU) aboard a research vessel to the seafloor in the ...

What rate has sea ice been decreasing in the last few decades? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the history of sea ice decline ...

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

Cassiopeia A is a famous supernova remnant, the product of a gigantic explosion of a massive star about 350 years ago. Although discovered in radio observations 50 years ago, now we know that its ...

Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxies in the ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a special and delightful cosmic object: a jellyfish galaxy. These galaxies are named for their larger main body with tendrils that float along ...