“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth...
Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of...
As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at...
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring...
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13,...
If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes,...
When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s...
Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass brown dwarf, a type of...
In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away....
As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful...
In May 2024, part of the Sun exploded. The Sun is an immense ball of superheated gas called plasma. Because...
A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used the Tianma Radio...
