Space

A four-ton relic of a Falcon 9 second stage that launched in January 2025 finally met the Moon after 18 months of aimles...

Imagine peeling back a sheet of paper and finding the chemical whispers of ancient organic material clinging to the laye...

Imagine opening a sealed diary from 4 billion years ago. Short of time travel, that's what scientists are doing when the...

Imagine a moon the size of Jupiter, not orbiting a planet but circling a brown dwarf that itself orbits a star. Strange....

Imagine a moon the size of Jupiter, not orbiting a planet but circling a brown dwarf that itself orbits a star. Strange....

A faint, electric-blue flash at the edge of a galaxy was enough to make astronomers sit up. It arrived on October 13, 20...

Picture this: an Earth twin hiding a hair's breadth away from a star so blinding it outshines the planet by ten billion ...

Think of Venus and an image springs to mind: a locked, oven-hot world where geology went quiet long ago. Think again. Ne...

Imagine finding a heavier cousin of water in a world 700 light-years away. That is the provocative hint emerging from fr...

Imagine tug-of-war where the rope gets lighter as you pull. Strange, right? That odd image helps capture a recent twist ...

Imagine gamma-ray photons as fingerprints left behind when matter meets its mirror image. They show up at a very specifi...

Imagine the Milky Way taking a slow, cosmic pirouette—so slow you could hardly notice in a human lifetime, but dramatic ...

Six light-years away, a quiet red dwarf is keeping a secret: four small, strange planets packed tighter than beads on a ...

Imagine a single tweak to an equation creating a puzzle that lasts a century. That is the odd legacy of Einstein’s cosmo...

Look up at a radio map of our galaxy and you might swear you see something erupting from the central churn — a towering ...

Imagine a small world 50 light-years away holding on to a whisper of its birth: a thin, helium-rich envelope clinging to...

Imagine a gray plume rising as a lander settles onto the lunar soil—dust spewing, optics blinded, and tiny rocks flung l...

Look closely at that mosaic of Enceladus and you can almost hear the solar system whispering its possibilities. The imag...

A whisper of motion inside a frigid cloud may decide whether a star ever sees the light. Deep within L1544, a dense pres...

A white square painted on stainless steel might tell engineers more about reusability than any lab test. Quiet gestures ...