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Hubble Captures a Galaxy Scarred by Cosmic CollisionsHubble's latest image of NGC 1511 reveals a spiral galaxy still res...

Cloudy worlds may now be a prime hunting ground for lifeCornell University scientists have created the first reflectance...

A new study reveals that Earth’s deep interior remains far more dynamic than once believed, continents can slowly shed t...

Hubble's latest image of NGC 4102 peels back a layer of calm spiral arms to reveal a softly glowing, active center — a s...

Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable world close to the Solar System: a rocky "super-Earth" orbiting an M...

For the first time, astronomers have mapped the precise shape of a supernova's shock front as it punched through the sur...

Blue Origin achieved a major milestone when its New Glenn rocket successfully launched NASA-bound twin spacecraft and, i...

In 2023, gravitational wave observatories recorded a collision so strange it seemed to break the rules physicists rely o...

The Moon is a calm, airless world to the naked eye — no weather, no wind, no storms — but it sits beneath a relentless d...

Earth has already been visited by a handful of interstellar objects (ISOs), and new research suggests impacts from these...

Moments after the Big Bang, the infant Universe may have been a surprisingly busy place. New research argues that in the...

Space agencies face a stubborn problem for long-duration missions: food. Transporting prepackaged meals from Earth works...

When a planet is torn apart and absorbed by its dying star, its ingredients don’t disappear — they become forensic evide...

New analysis of NASA's Cassini data shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus releases more heat than scientists expected — and ...

Scientists have produced the clearest, most detailed picture yet of how neutrinos — the universe’s most elusive particle...

New research suggests that a handful of gargantuan, short-lived stars—each thousands of times the mass of the Sun—left c...

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first three-dimensional map of an exoplanet atmosphere, revealing blazin...

In a surprising political U-turn, President Donald Trump has renominated billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut ...

Three Chinese taikonauts have had their planned return to Earth postponed after debris struck their Shenzhou-20 return c...

Black holes, once shrouded in theoretical mystery, are now being probed with images that capture their shadow and surrou...