Science & Astronomy

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.

A hot, dry start to summer has spurred a record number of wildfires in southern Alaska, and weather satellites are tracking the development of the blazes from space.

NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars.

An amateur astronomer found a fossilized surprise in the well-studied sky near the bright Andromeda Galaxy.

The second of the four cutting-edge instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to perform science ahead of the awaited release of first full-quality images on July 12.

After half a year of commissioning in space, the James Webb Space Telescope will release its first science images in July. Here's how you can tune in to the historic event for free.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.

July's full moon will once again be a supermoon, reaching its perigee or closest point to our planet on July 13.