Cornell researchers suggest that non-water-based life forms are possible on Saturn’s moon Titan. ...

The European Space Agency is moving forward with plans to remove space debris. ...

At a Glance During part of the planet's orbit, all three stars are visible on the same day, offering triple sunrises and sunsets.Triple-star systems with detected planets are rare enough; this is believed to be just the fifth such discovery A newly discovered planet is possibly the strange world of sci-fi lovers' dreams, with its triple sunrises and sunsets and periods of nonstop daylight. Found in the Constellation Centaurus, Planet HD 131339 Ab was revealed Thursday by astronomers, who said...

(NASA) NASA has spotted a field of strange, dark dunes on Mars that look eerily like the dots and dashes that comprise Morse code. The field has been captured before, but thenew images,taken Feb. 6, 2016, and recently released show the dunes in clearer detail than usual, allowing scientists to translate the message for the first time. And, no, it's not a message from aliens, but an indication of wind patterns on the red planet. Like Earth, dune patterns are...

Artist's illustration of how the nearby brown dwarf WISE 0855 might appear if viewed close-up in infrared light. (Joy Pollard, Gemini Observatory/AURA) At a Glance Scientists discover compelling evidence of a gas giant outside our solar system.Brown dwarf WISE 0855 shares many similarities with Jupiter.Coldest known body outside the solar system. Astronomers have found the first strong evidence of water clouds on a heavenly body outside our solar system. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that recent...

The moon just photobombed Earth. A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite as it passed between the satellite and Earth, according to NASA. “For the second time in the life of DSCOVR, the moon moved between the spacecraft and Earth,” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “The project recorded this event on July 5 with the same cadence and spatial resolution as the first ‘lunar photobomb’ of...

Astronomers reveal previously unremarkable galaxy is actually huge made up of non-matching parts and is older on the outside than on the inside. ...

Astronomers have observed the aftermath of a supermassive black hole eating a distant star using a network of telescopes all over the world. The rare phenomenon was captured by the , a group of 21 radio telescopes stationed all over the world that combine observations to make high-precision measurements of faraway galaxies. (WATCH:) The telescope network, described as "Earth-sized," observed a jet of particles moving close to the speed of light spewing out of a supermassive black hole in the...

New research suggests the universe experienced a "Big Bounce" rather than a "Big Bang" to come into existence. (Getty Images/Gary S. Chapman) At a Glance Researchers suggest that the universe has alternated between periods of expansion and contraction.Scientists offered an explanation for how the "Big Bounce" theory might be plausible. New research suggests we may be living in a second-generation universe –or even a third or fourth. Some scientists say the expanding universe may not have been born of a...

NASA's Juno missionspacecraft has sent back the first pictures since its Independence Day arrival in Jupiter's orbit. The photo above shows a color view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft made from some of the first images taken by the JunoCam aboard the spacecraft. Juno entered orbit around the planet on July 5, 2016. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) Three of Jupiter's four largest moons surround the planet in an image taken as the spacecraft circled3 million miles away. Even at that distance, Jupiter's...

NASA says it is ready to proceed with the final design and construction of its next and arrive on the Red Planet in February 2021, according to a NASA press release. , with landing in a yet-to-be-determined spot in February 2021, where it will explore the Martian surface for at least two years, mission team members said. "While we're there, the major scientific objective of the mission is to seek the signs of life," Mars 2020 project scientist Kenneth Farley,...

NASA said it is sailing full-steam ahead in solar system exploration. (NASA/JPL) At a Glance NASA said it's moving forward with missions targeted at exploring our solar system.Many current and future missions will help answer fundamental questions about our existence, NASA says. As NASA prepares to take Juno's first close-up images of Jupiter on Aug. 27, the space agency announced Friday that it is "sailing full-steam ahead in solar system investigation," and hopes current and future missions will help about...