Science & Astronomy

Researchers have discovered tiny, never-before-seen carbon crystals in meteorite dust left over from the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013.

The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.

With the switching back on after a three-year hiatus, CERN's Large Hadron Collider turns its sights toward shedding light on the mysterious dark matter.

NASA's CAPSTONE mission successfully executed a spacecraft burn Monday (July 4) and started its solo journey to the moon.

A pair of lunar robots designed by German engineers took this selfie to conclude a successful exercise of autonomous operations on the moon-like slopes of Italy's Mount Etna.

In 2012, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle scientists had been searching for since 1964.

Stars appear to twinkle because the light from these distant objects passes through wobbly air in the atmosphere.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online.

The Perseverance team says the rover can still take key weather measurements after pebbles struck a wind sensor amid strong Red Planet gusts.

The James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared instruments will be trained on three types of comets, potentially providing insight into the solar system's early life.

The effect of Roe v. Wade in space, rocket launches will damage ozone, and NASA's solar forecast might be wrong.

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.

NASA's little CAPSTONE cubesat is making good progress on its long journey to the moon.