The OSIRIS-REx team performed a crucial drop test on Wednesday (Aug. 30), practicing what they'll do when the mission's real asteroid sample comes home on Sept. 24.
Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida on Wednesday (Aug. 30) in view of both satellites and astronauts in space.
India's Pragyan moon rover photographed its mothership, the Vikram lander, for the first time as the two continue their exploration halfway through the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the heaviest Neptune-like planet yet — one four times more massive than our solar system's Neptune.
If this tech demonstration is successful, the system could one day allow astronauts to converse by laser.
A dead star feeding on a stellar companion seems to have two brightness modes. It's because, astronomers discovered, the system launches cosmic cannonballs.
NASA will discuss the September arrival of asteroid samples collected by its OSIRIS-REx probe during a press conference today (Aug. 30), and you can watch it live.
An instrument aboard the mission’s Pragyan rover has found traces of sulfur within the lunar south pole’s soil.
A rare temperature-sensitive molecule usually found in stars has been discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, a marshmallow-like hot Jupiter called WASP-31b.
Satellites watched as a temporary city sprang up in the Nevada desert, where the famed Burning Man "radical self-expression" festival kicked off on Monday (Aug. 28).
A James Webb Space Telescope image of M51 boasts amber hues and reddish streaks, capturing the galaxy's gravitational relationship with a neighboring realm.
Weather satellites in orbit above Earth are watching Hurricane Idalia and Hurricane Franklin as they pick up strength in ocean waters off the southern coast of the United States.
Reference The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland.
The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption may have contributed to this year's heat, but it's not causing climate change.
Chandrayaan-3's landing site near the moon's south pole will be named Shiv Shakti Point, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday (Aug. 26).
The iconic telescopes will make observations of the solar system's most volcanic body, Io. Data collected will help guide NASA's Juno mission when it revisits Jupiter and and the fiery moon.
Superconductors that work at temperatures much higher than absolute zero have befuddled scientists since they were discovered. A new theory might be about to change that.
Can what we learn about the metal asteroid Psyche with NASA's upcoming mission of the same name be extrapolated to solve some of the mysteries about the Earth's core?
Chandrayaan-3 creates first temperature profile near the moon's south pole; ISRO offers more updates on the historic lunar mission.
