Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket into orbit for the...
For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can...
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent...
Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across...
Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves—found throughout the universe—are able to accelerate particles to...
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will have to wait a little longer for the long-anticipated maiden orbital flight of its brand-new...
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese...
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal...
Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars...
Although our solar system is billions of years old, we’ve only recently become better acquainted with one of its more...
