Science & Astronomy

Neutral particles accelerated to incredible speeds could be used to investigate powerful solar storms, according to a new study.

During the opening remarks in today's meeting of NASA's UAP study team, members stressed that the biggest roadblock standing between us and understanding unidentified phenomena is a lack of data.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spied a massive "H" structure half the size of our entire galaxy made of blazing hot gas spewing from a distant supermassive black hole.

The SpaceX Dragon crew capsule Freedom splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico with four crew members of the Ax-2 mission on board.

The two protesters burst from their cocoons of gas and dust in Lupus 3, a vast stellar nursery located about 500 light-years from Earth.

On Wednesday (May 31), NASA will hold a meeting of the "independent study group" the agency created to study data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. Here's how to watch it live.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a distant star cluster that could help us better understand how such clusters evolve and even reveal the elusive black holes at their hearts.

Europe's JUICE spacecraft is now in its full flight configuration, six weeks after the flagship mission launched for Jupiter.

Firing ultrasound signals into rodent brains puts them in a torpor-like state. Scientists are wondering if it could be used on humans.

Observing a powerful feeding black hole in X-ray light has allowed astronomers to peer into the inner workings of what is the brightest quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history.

The Borealis Mud Volcano is only the second found in Norwegian waters and releases a continuous stream of methane-rich, muddy liquid from deep below Earth's crust.

Slippages in sediment beneath the Antarctic seabed could spawn gigantic tsunamis as oceans warm.

The James Webb Space Telescope caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a 'huge plume' of watery vapor far into space — and that plume may contain chemical ingredients for life.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid satellite completed the first part of its long journey into space on May 1, 2023, when it arrived in Florida on a boat from Italy.

The United Arab Emirates just provided new details about its planned asteroid mission, which will visit seven different space rocks — and land on one of them.

Deep ocean currents around Antarctica that are vital to marine life have slowed by 30% since the 1990s and could soon grind to a complete halt, a new study finds.

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.