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Understanding how heat moves through the lunar regolith can help scientists understand how the Moon's interior formed.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a massive, dormant black hole from just 800 million years after the Big Bang.
Mars isn’t just a cold, barren rock. Anthropologists argue that the tracks of rovers and broken probes are archaeological treasures.
Now scientists won't have to travel from one place to another to observe solar eclipses. They can create their own eclipses lasting for hours.
A gamma-ray flare from a black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass leaves scientists stunned.
Astronauts aboard the ISS are brewing more than just discoveries — they’re testing how sake ferments in space.
Sun-like stars release massive quantities of radiation into space more often than previously believed.
A white dwarf/M dwarf binary could be the secret.
Two spacecraft will create artificial eclipses to study the Sun’s corona.
Warm days may ignite the Red Planet’s huge dust storms.
A new technique allowed scientists to spot the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt.
New data confirms a puzzling rift in the universe's expansion rate.
When Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon in 1969, his words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” rippled throughout humanity. Our species had arrived on another celestial body, marking one of our most outstanding achievements in history. Yet, despite the overwhelming evidence, some conspiracy theorists still doubt that man actually […]
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life
NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our view of Pluto, revealing a vibrant, geologically active world full of surprises.
A new study sheds some additional light on the hellscape that is Venus.
New research on asteroid Ryugu samples reveals an unexpected culprit: Earth microbes.
A zircon crystal from a Martian meteorite unlocks secrets of a water-rich, dynamic Mars 4.45 billion years ago.
James Webb's infrared vision sheds light on star-forming regions in the Sombrero Galaxy.
The powerful shockwave caused by the galactic collision is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter."
Astronomers zoom in on a red supergiant in its final death throes 160,000 light-years away.
NASA's research could provide useful information as humans venture farther out into space.
That Einstein guy really was smart.
Like the Sun, black holes also have a corona.
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
NASA’s new laser technology brings deep space communication closer to broadband speeds.
China's redesigned Long March 9 rocket signals a shift toward reusable, Starship-like spacecraft.
Everyone can express their vote, even if they're not on the planet.
The fall of the radio telescope was the result of many overlooked warning signs.
Back-up plans can be timeless.
Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut."
Now that's what I call a return on investment.
Could elusive axions be gathering in dense clouds around neutron stars? Some scientists certainly think so.
A new study calculates where photosynthetic microbes might survive under Martian ice.
The Intelsat 33e satellite's breakup raises serious concerns about space debris.
Scientists can find new things even in the most well-studied black holes.
A secret star orbiting Betelgeuse could solve the mystery of its pulsating brightness.
An asteroid's orbit may reveal an invisible fifth force that could rewrite the rules of physics.
The first moving images of a black hole could reveal swirls of plasma and collapsing stars, deepening our understanding of the universe.
Multiple private space companies are now vying for their proposals to become the ISS's successor.
Galaxies grow up so quickly don't they?
Observations of R Doradus, a nearby red giant, provide the first timescale for convection on the surface of any star other than the Sun.
Low-orbit Earth could become inoperable for spacecraft and satellites if this complacency persists, with dire consequences.
New data suggests our galaxy may reside in an immense basin of gravitational attraction far larger than Laniākea.
Young galaxies such as this should have been "small and messy looking."
How could we feed astronauts on lengthy space missions? These researchers have a quirky idea.
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas will be visible to the naked eye for the first time in 80,000 years.
The closest single star to our solar system reveals a planet with a three-day year.
We may be on the cusp of finally breaking the standard model of cosmology.
The ESA's probe found life on Earth. No comment on its intelligence.
