Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like chirping birds in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring iconic images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The stamps, ...

Just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us,’ says scientist ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...

NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, satellites at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, March 2015. (NASA via AP) ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

a space physicist at the University of Iowa who was not involved with the work. Scientists still aren’t sure how the perturbations happen, but they think Earth’s magnetic field may have ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

Artwork showing two of the potential dangers of low-Earth orbit: space debris and solar flares. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images An international group of researchers is ...

My name is Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and I'm a space scientist and a science communicator, and that means I put things into space. When I first went to school, I didn't enjoy it very much because ...

Chinese researchers detected audible electromagnetic waves over 62,000 miles from Earth in a region where they weren't expected.

The discovery could help scientists get closer to understanding the mysterious invisible matter that makes up the bulk of our ...