NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed ...

Our Universe was 'pre-heated' in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy ...

Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up." ...

NASA's IMAP mission aims to map the heliosphere, study solar wind, and improve space weather forecasting for Earth's ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Startup's radiation shield tech could bring high-performance AI chips to space Air Force backs startup's radiation-shield ...

The observatory’s work is far from trivial. It captures gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical data in real time, studying black holes, supernovae, neutron stars, and other cosmic phenomena.

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Swift, launched in 2004 and parked in low-Earth orbit at around 585 km above the planet, is gradually losing altitude due to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...