Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe’s Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday,...
In the 1990s, NASA satellites built to spot high-energy particles coming from supernovae and other celestial-sized objects discovered a surprise—high...
Gas swirls around a black hole due to its intense gravity, forming an accretion disk. These accretion disks, being among...
As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet’s...
Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from...
Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis...
For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the...
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade—but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the...
Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a...
Europe’s Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was...
