Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, ...

On a mountaintop in Chile's sprawling Atacama Desert, a new telescope has turned its mechanical eyes to the heavens, stargazing with unprecedented intensity. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will take ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role of ancient dwarf galaxies in seeding the cosmos with uranium and thorium.

JWST might have spotted the 'smoking gun' of a hypothetical object called a dark star in the distant Universe.

In a small office crammed with computers, Lynn Cominsky tries to figure out what's going on in the universe and how to explain it to the world. Spend a couple of hours with her and your mind reels ...

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous ...

Over half a dozen missions have contributed to how astronomers understand the heliosphere, and two enduring spacecraft, the Voyager probes, have collected key data after exiting the heliosphere to ...

The mission was extended until September 2025, allowing for additional orbits and flybys of Jupiter's moons like Ganymede, Europa and Io.

“I knew we had to somehow get him into space.” DAWN NADEAU, the president of the board for the New York co-op where the ashes of Willy Ley, known as the prophet of the space age, were discovered, on ...

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