Astronomers used the Einstein Probe to track a powerful blast of X-rays back to its source in...
An international team of astronomers has observed one of the brightest fast radio bursts (FRBs) ever detected—and...
Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of...
Despite the arrival of privately funded lunar mining companies, advancements in space resource legislation (such as the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will liftoff Thursday, Aug. 21, with the Boeing-built X-37B space plane for...
We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But...
STARBASE, Texas—I first visited SpaceX's launch site in South Texas a decade ago. Driving down the pocked...
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas and dust...
Two colossal plasma fountains tore away from the sun in a breathtaking double blast, one of the...
As part of its exploration of Mars's boxwork landscape, Curiosity found itself in a fork-in-the-road
Earth’s atmosphere is large, extending out to around 10,000 km from the surface of the planet. It’s...
The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation...
Save the world and our lunar history in Lunar Strike, the 2026 sci-fi narrative adventure game that...
United Launch Alliance is leaning more into reusability as it advances work on recovering the engine section...
A deep partial solar eclipse will grace the Southern Hemisphere on Sept. 21, 2025, with the best...
If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look?...
Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It’s cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It...
A new theoretical study by University of Virginia astrophysicist Jonathan Tan, a research professor with the College...
An international research team has reported remarkable findings from an XRISM observation of the black hole X-ray...
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that...