space

About 70 million light-years from Earth, the spiral galaxy NGC 6951 offers a vivid lesson in how galactic structure driv...

Scientists studying Saturn's moon Titan have found that extreme cold enables unlikely partnerships between molecules. Ne...

Ten years after gravitational waves first opened a new window on the cosmos, a remarkably clean signal from a binary bla...

A persistent gamma-ray glow around the Milky Way’s center has baffled astronomers for more than a decade. New galaxy-sca...

Deep inside some of the planet’s oldest stones, researchers have found chemical fingerprints that may belong to a versio...

Scientists have found a previously unknown near‑Earth asteroid hiding in the Sun's glare. Catalogued as 2025 SC79, this ...

New satellite observations and large-scale simulations have overturned a long-held assumption about how electric charge ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has once again surprised scientists. New research shows that under Titan’s frigid conditio...

Clear skies and a new Moon set the stage for one of autumn's most rewarding sky shows. On the night of October 21, the O...

Imagine listening to the Universe when it was still dark. Japanese researchers say a whisper of radio light from the cos...

Researchers have recreated a Martian mystery in the lab: blocks of frozen carbon dioxide appear to burrow through sand, ...

Scientists reanalyzing archival data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered fresh, compelling evidence that Satur...

A compact, unseen mass roughly a million times the mass of the Sun has been detected embedded in a galaxy whose light tr...

New measurements of the Kuiper Belt plane reveal an unexpected 15-degree tilt among objects orbiting well beyond Neptune...

Why do scientists still argue over which planets appeared first in our solar system? More than four decades of meteorite...

Tiny glass fragments uncovered in South Australia point to a violent asteroid strike roughly 11 million years ago — an e...

The Moon’s largest impact basin, the South Pole–Aitken (SPA), has just revealed a surprising detail about how it was for...

SpaceX’s Starship completed its 11th test flight with a planned splashdown of its upper stage in the Indian Ocean and a ...

Imagine a storm in space the size of the Sun’s influence, spawning dozens of smaller, tornado-like vortexes that race to...

A landmark international assessment released in October 2025 warns that humanity is approaching — and in some cases has ...