For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts ...

While scientists discovered the Cosmic Vine using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have yet to find a string of galaxies ...

Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact. It gives you the comfort of a labeled universe, one where galaxies, stars and ...

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...

A team of astronomers has reconstructed the 12-billion-year evolutionary history of a giant spiral galaxy, marking a major ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a ...

Cosmic rays are one of the greatest challenges for space travel and pose a considerable risk to humans and materials. For the first time on European soil, an international research team in ...

"By reproducing relativistic plasma conditions in the lab, we can measure processes that shape the evolution of cosmic jets and better understand the origin of magnetic fields in intergalactic space." ...

What processes other than water and energy could be responsible for creating life on other worlds? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology hopes to address ...

With NASA’s operations under existential threat from the Trump administration, maybe it’s not surprising that the agency will be taking a much needed moment to zone out and gaze into a void or two — ...

The latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed new details in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. NASA Webb Mission Team said Wednesday (Feb 25): ...