Science & Astronomy

A physics student and 'aurora chaser' got a special treat after reserving a cabin in Iceland: A storm surge of green auroras shimmering in the sky just overhead.

Three newly discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxies could offer clues to the conditions in the early universe and to the nature of dark matter.

Black holes residing at the center of galaxies produce way more energy than scientists previously thought, a new study has revealed.

China's Zhurong Mars rover remains silent despite being expected to wake up in December — but there's still hope that the vehicle could rise from its extended slumber.

Amino acids, the building blocks of life, have been found in the nearly pristine Winchcombe meteorite.

The latest image clicked by James Webb Space Telescope sheds light on how early stars formed during cosmic noon — more than 10 billion years ago.

NASA has released satellite view showing California's brutally wet start to the new year.

Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don't expect to be visiting dinosaurs any time soon.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to provide a stunning new view of the robust star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula.

Through what they call "galactic archaeology," astronomers trained an AI to detect the oldest stars hiding in the Milky Way's core.

The Hubble Space Telescope caught an unexpected asteroid streaking across a field of distant galaxies.

A type of crystal that breaks the rules of ordinary crystallography has been found in a tube of melted sand from Nebraska.

250 million-year-old pollen suggests radiation played a role in mass extinction event.

Neutron-star mergers could create hypermassive neutron stars that are the fastest spinning stars in the universe.

Galaxies in the early universe were much more varied and mature than previously thought, according to observations made by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

When solar winds bombard Earth's magnetosphere, they create waves that shouldn't be able to traverse a turbulent region called the shock. New research demonstrates how this appears to happen.

A new time-lapse image shows two major sunspot groups moving across the surface of the sun in December 2022, when the number of solar splotches also skyrocketed to an eight-year high.

The accelerator at FRIB started working at low power, but when it finishes ramping up to full strength, it will be the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator on Earth.