If you've ever looked at historical photographs from NASA or images of satellites, then you've noticed they're wrapped in a ...

U.S. astronaut Nichole "Vapor" Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

A full “buck” moon will peak over Kansas soon, and residents can also catch the beginnings of a popular meteor shower later ...

When the Berlin Wall fell nearly four decades ago, many in the West celebrated, believing that free market economics had finally put the scourge of centralized planning in the rearview mirror. But ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

NASA's PUNCH mission, launched in March 2025, is already delivering remarkable results. The mission captured a rare \"rainbow\" view of space dust and i ...

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon in 1969, 600 million people watched on black-and-white televisions. Today, most of ...

The H.R.1 spending bill Trump signed Friday that expands mass deportations, cuts social services, and stalls clean energy ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...