space

Buried for decades in a helium-sealed vault, a sliver of Apollo 17 material has yielded an unexpected clue about the ear...

After 15 years of gamma-ray observations, astronomers have identified a faint, high-energy glow in the Milky Way's halo ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago a Mars-sized planetesimal smashed into the young Earth, producing a molten, chaotic afterm...

China carried out its first-ever emergency space launch when an unmanned Shenzhou-22 capsule, lofted by a Long March-2F ...

NASA and Boeing have confirmed that the Starliner spacecraft is being prepared for another trip to the International Spa...

Primordial black holes are a theoretical class of black holes thought to have formed in the very early universe. In popu...

A Japanese research team has used artificial intelligence to create the most detailed Milky Way simulation to date — one...

Deep beneath our feet, enormous and oddly behaving structures at the core–mantle boundary are rewriting parts of Earth’s...

Geoscientists say a slow, hidden process deep beneath our feet is stripping continental roots and carrying that material...

New analysis of distant radio galaxies suggests our Solar System might be racing through space at a speed far greater th...

Astronomers have identified a distant galaxy whose light reads like a time capsule: almost no heavy elements, strong hyd...

Researchers have exposed spore-bearing capsules from a common laboratory moss to the vacuum and radiation of low Earth o...

Hubble’s striking view of NGC 4571 reveals a glittering spiral galaxy alive with newborn stars and glowing pink nebulae....

More than 13 billion years after the Big Bang, a whisper from hydrogen atoms could finally tell us how the first stars w...

In May 2024 Earth was hit by one of the most intense geomagnetic superstorms in decades. Observations from Japan’s Arase...

Across the skies between South America and southwest Africa lies a curious and expanding weakness in Earth's magnetic sh...

New analysis of Martian dunes suggests underground water once trickled through the sands of Gale Crater, leaving mineral...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured an extraordinary moment: a skydiver, silhouetted against the Sun's fiery disk...

Imagine a cosmos that once blazed with comparatively abundant star birth, now dimming as it ages. New research led by as...

Mars, sulfur, and a surprising link to automotive concernsA new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Aus...