Once again, a search for signs of dark matter outside its gravitational effect has turned up zilch – but this time it’s...
After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have finally caught it acting out. A pulsar called...
The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes...
How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is...
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...
There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System, messing with the orbits of some of...
A leaky galaxy might be offering up clues about a vast cosmic makeover foisted on the universe during its youth. Within about...
For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA scientists have opened up a sample of Moon matter collected during the...
Rigorous testing is at the heart of any successful space mission. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be a million miles...