Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the sun on its path out of the solar system. The data were collected during a Shadow the Scientists session a unique outreach initiative that invites students around the world to join researchers as they observe the...

   SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are combining for a busy week of rocket launches on the Space Coast.

   Elon Musk has signaled plans to soon seek a public stock listing of SpaceX, confirming a report that links the strategic shift to a near-term need for more capital.

   Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the sun and how sometimes they don’t.

   Researchers at the University of HawaiÊ i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The UH-led team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can map the sun’s magnetic field in three dimensions with unprecedented accuracy, supporting research...

   There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit, some of which pose a threat to functional satellites. Various agencies and organizations have been developing novel solutions to this problem, before it turns into full-blown Kessler Syndrome. But many of them are reliant on...

   The moon’s surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth’s atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of life-sustaining substances for future astronauts. But scientists have only recently begun to understand how...

   Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun’s atmosphere, a shifting, frothy boundary that marks where solar winds escape the sun’s magnetic grasp. By combining the maps and close-up measurements, scientists from the Center for Astrophysics...

   Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every galaxy has one of these giant black holes within their cores, as NASA leads the world in exploring...

   In a discovery that’s fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar system is already rare, finding one that circles two suns is even rarer. But this new world is extra...

   The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth’s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth’s magnetic field, but with its ’star tracker’ positioning instruments a...

   The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered almost a decade ago about 40 light-years from Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 system contains seven terrestrial planets similar to Earth, and four of them may be in the habitable zone. The...

   Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been uncovered by an international team of astronomers.

   By analyzing the data from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy Messier 74. The new study presented Dec. 3 on the arXiv pre-print server, provides essential information regarding the properties and nature...

   Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system.

   In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in visible and even ultraviolet light but transforms into a cosmic beast when observed at infrared...

   NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.

   Supernovae aren’t one of the JWST’s main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 million years old. It wasn’t just any random star; this one was a supernova responsible for a gamma-ray...

   Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are collaborating with researchers at UT San Antonio to study how space weathering can alter the lunar surface materials to help interpret regional and global far-ultraviolet (FUV) maps of the moon.

   For 10 months, a SETI Institute-led team watched pulsar PSR J0332 5434 (also called B0329 54) to study how its radio signal twinkles as it passes through gas between the star and Earth. The team used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to take measurements between 900 and 1,956 MHz and observed slow,...

   The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in the night sky. Their study, presented in Science Advances, reports on the very first observations of a swirling vortex in spacetime caused by a rapidly rotating black hole.

   The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The moon’s proximity to Earth and the presence of precious resources make it an increasingly attractive prospect for exploitation.

   If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day to you. That’s the day that NASA completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. The two main segments of the powerful space telescope were joined together in the...

   A new research collaboration that fuses fashion and science is set to send bacteria into space and the outcomes could create radiation-sensitive fabrics capable of preventing skin cancer on Earth and protecting space explorers on the moon.

   Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a geochemical record of their parent bodies makes them promising candidates for future use of space...

   A research team led by Professor Woong-bae Zee at Sejong University has uncovered compelling evidence that the distinctive warped shapes of many disk galaxies are closely tied to both their surrounding satellite systems and the vast cosmic web in which they reside.

   Irish planetary scientists have christened a spider-like feature on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa as Damhán Alla, which translates to spider or wall demon.

   A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary cosmic outburst this July which likely heralds a new kind of stellar explosion. With a flood of data from sources including NASA satellites, the team observed a gamma-ray burst...

   Earth’s climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet’s orbit and axial tilt. These variations, known as Milankovitch cycles, occur because Earth doesn’t orbit the sun in isolation. The gravitational pull of other planets...

   Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about 15,000 of them, with a new one each day, they’re still mysterious. They’re the most luminous, energetic explosions in the universe, and typically last only a few milliseconds, or...