Joanna Thompson

National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on Tuesday (June 24) with no direction yet for where to go.

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from experts.

Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

The Trump administration is closing a historic NASA science office in the name of efficiency, but critics point out that the move won't actually save much money.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped.

Headaches are a common and recurring problem in space, even for astronauts that don't experience them on Earth.

Last summer, Harvard professor Avi Loeb claimed tiny pellets of iron came from beyond our solar system. But new analyses suggest that they likely originated much closer to home.

Here's how your brain might adjust to see color on another world.

The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity.

Asteroids are left over from the early solar system. Here's how they get destroyed.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.

The cold and mysterious Oort cloud at the edge of our solar system may be hiding a rogue exoplanet, new research suggests.

Scientists have discovered a weird celestial object that's blurring the line between planet and star.

On its face, the Apollo 11 quarantine protocol looked sensible. But the new research suggests that NASA's "planetary protection" efforts were largely for show.

Here's what we know (and don't know) about China's mysterious space plane, which just landed after nine months in orbit on a secret mission.

Students at Carnegie Mellon University are sending America's first robotic lunar rover to the moon this May, beating NASA to the punch by about a year.

Scientists have observed that some of Neptune's Trojan asteroids are deep red, possibly revealing what asteroids may have been like in the early days of the solar system.

Does anyone have sovereignty over the moon? And can anyone buy it?

Auroras don't just exist on Earth. Here's what we know about auroras on other planets in the solar system.

Giving aliens directions to Earth might be tricky, but scientists have some ideas for how to do it.

The inner core of our planet is actually a mishmash of hard, mushy and liquid metal.

Tiny natural ice structures help arrange stones into spectacular landscapes.

They did it by sending rubidium atoms into free fall