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, ...

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

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 ...

Space is the final frontier, right? That's what science fiction loves to say, and there's a lot of whimsy and wonder behind such a statement. But that's for a fairly good reason. After all, it's not a ...

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

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA's ...

There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...

"It would be amazing if a simple rotation of the universe was the origin of dark energy." What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse?

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

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 ...