Stories by Nola Taylor Tillman

Keep your eyes to the night skies because this won't happen again until 2034

A collision between the Red Planet and its innermost moon, Phobos, could create a Saturn-like field of debris

Water from sources such as aquifers could last long enough to pool, with larger pools remaining liquid for at least a year, according to researchers

Findings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests winter in Titan's southern hemisphere will be even colder than predicted

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals that the planet's trademark feature is still shrinking, but not as fast as previously observed

Research reveals today's produced energy is only about half of what it was 2 billion years ago

The ALMA telescope array glimpses a far-distant galaxy through an Einstein ring

Astrobiologists hope that the detection of certain minerals on exoplanets by ever-more-sensitive space telescopes could indicate biochemical processes associated with life

A private spacecraft is planned to skim through the atmosphere of Mars to gather dust and return home, without the difficulty of landing

Low-mass binary stars could make the best hosts for alien life because their combined energy extends the habitable region farther away than would exist around a single star

Computer models reveal a pair of 32-kilometer-long asteroids caused Vesta's crust to melt and then re-form, making it thicker than can be explained by typical rock layering

Gamma rays emitted during the formation of neutron stars and black holes allow scientists to study fundamental principles like superstring theory

Scientists speculate that an energetic "kick" could boot a star out of orbit and drive the remaining pair closer together

The spiral, created by a red giant's companion star, lets astronomers see when layers of the red giant were lost

Similarities in the upper atmospheres of the three planets may be due to meteoroids' shedding heavy elements as they pass through

The finding should help scientists better understand the ever-expanding universe and the nature of dark energy

A new study finds that previous estimates for this gaseous planet's swirling rotation were inaccurate

The dormant volcanoes on the far side of the moon offer an alternative way to sculpt the lunar surface