Using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers are beginning the largest and deepest survey of the sky. What will they ...

When it eventually happens, a murder in space will be unlike any that has taken place on Earth. So how do you investigate an ...

NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...

Barnard’s Star hosts four hostile small planets whose unusual chemistry and orbital rhythm reveal how compact planetary systems can form and survive.

Gravity-1, the world's most powerful solid-fuel rocket, aced its third-ever mission on Tuesday night (July 21).

A new study reveals that some proposed signatures of quantum gravity may have an unexpected classical explanation.

New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details about the blistering lava planet 55 Cancri e, where temperatures ...

Hillslopes in Arctic regions with frozen soils can host a suite of geometric patterns, from circles and stripes to polygonal ...

Look up at the night sky on a clear evening and the Moon is usually the first thing that catches your eye. It has inspired poems, guided travellers, shaped calendars and sparked dreams of space ...

Astronomers have spotted two puffed-up gas-giant planets that both orbit the same star 1. At around the size of Jupiter but more than 20 times lighter, they are some of the lowest-density planets ever ...

In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that there is life on Earth. Not much of a deduction, you might think — except that the researchers confined their ...