A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy...
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of...
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon’s oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has detected magnetic distortions in solar wind, known as switchbacks. To better understand these phenomena,...
Europe’s new Vega-C rocket launched Thursday from French Guiana and put a satellite into orbit in its first takeoff since...
The United States is pushing back its planned return to the moon from 2026 to “mid-2027” as it deals with...
Colorful auroras appeared around Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, 2024, sparked by an intense magnetic storm. Usually,...
In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby...
Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens...
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike...
An international team of astronomers has investigated a planetary system consisting of three alien worlds orbiting the star TOI-396. The...
