The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

On Earth, DMS is made by ocean plankton, then quickly broken down in the atmosphere through photochemical and other reactions ...

More than sixty years ago, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) officially began with Project Ozma at ...

Curiosity-driven research is the engine that fuels discovery. In UW–Madison’s College of Letters & Science, we are guided by ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.