A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The study, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), sheds new light on one of science’s ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

University of Nebraska–Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a ...

Our home planet seems to share its heritage with a famous comet. By analysing the chemical make-up of the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks — which was discovered in 1812 and passes close to the Earth every 71 ...

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...