A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed.

Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun's atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

In 2005, when South Africa and its partner countries in Africa submitted a proposal to host the world’s largest radio telescope, called the Square Kilometre Array, the continent had five ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden truth about the composition of space dust which helps to form planets and stars around ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...