Science & Astronomy

Hawaii's Mauna Loa erupts for the first time in decades, a meteorite contains two minerals new to science and a stellar bridge connects two galaxies. These are some of this week's top photos.

The Andromeda galaxy has a history of galactic "cannibalism," the James Webb Space Telescope beholds Saturn's moon Titan and Artemis 1 is officially coming back to Earth. These are some of this week's top stories.

Two major NASA missions that have launched in the past year are revealing a communications weakness in space.

A Martian megatsunami may have raced across the Red Planet after a cosmic impact similar to the one that likely ended Earth's age of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

A newly released photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a spectacular galaxy merger in progress.

A new interactive map of the cosmos allows users to journey from our galaxy to the most distant sources of light that existed just after the Big Bang.

Meteorites that fall to Earth are ancient time capsules, and scientists who merged two imaging techniques may be able to tell us if and how they brought water to Earth.

It's been a cloudy season for Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

NASA's bold mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon is facing tight schedules getting instruments installed and ready for the planned 2024 launch.

A new video shows how a team of NASA and European Space Agency spacecraft plan to relay Martian rock samples to Earth.

The hole could beam solar material outwards at speeds up to 1.8 million mph (2.9 million kph)

Satellites are watching closely as the world's largest volcano erupts for the first time in decades.

The minerals were found inside a slice of the El Ali meteorite, which was discovered in Somalia in 2020.

A quantum experiment has been used to model the dynamics of a wormhole, which could be the key to uniting quantum physics and Einstein's general relativity.

Astronomers are increasingly concerned about the future of the night sky as new images show shocking trails left by a massive communications satellite against otherwise clear, dark patches of sky.

Astronomers have made the most distant observation of a black hole ripping apart a star and feasting upon it, thanks to a jet of stellar "leftovers" blasted directly toward Earth.

By using a chain of atoms to simulate a black hole's event horizon, researchers have shown that Hawking radiation may exist just as the late physicist described.