Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
Users can search database of 1,600 stars to find signs of new exoplanets.
Users can search database of 1,600 stars to find signs of new exoplanets.
Physicists address loophole in tests of Bell’s inequality, using 600-year-old starlight.
Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
Instrument will help OSIRIS-REx mission identify locations for collecting an asteroid sample.
Two potentially habitable planets in nearby system are confirmed to be rocky.
Scientists find gas at center of Perseus cluster travels much more slowly than expected.
Experiments show planet cooled dramatically in half a billion years.
Signal was produced by two black holes colliding 1.4 billion light years away.
Findings suggest two dining styles for black holes.
New algorithm could stitch together astronomical measurements made across the globe.
Physics professor emeritus shares prize with Caltech's Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever for designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
Team that detected gravitational waves to share $3 million prize.
Just 40 light years from Earth, planets are best targets so far for search for extraterrestrial life.
Exoplanet lacks atmosphere, is covered in rivers of magma.
Unique galaxy offers clues to the extreme conditions that yield the heavies of the periodic table.