Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Trump’s pick to lead NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, has not been approved yet, so no official changes in the plan have ...

Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...