The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has secured unprecedented access to at least seven sensitive federal databases, including those...
A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black...
For decades, people have been trying to directly detect dark matter: the missing mass in our universe. Now, there’s a...
Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf—the dense remnant of a dead star—continually siphons stellar...
Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1...
A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought,...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered “middle-aged,” and the pictures of what...
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most...
If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks...
After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The...
A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the “radio-quiet” characteristics of four magnetars and...
