"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...