Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

As satellite technology surges ahead and space becomes increasingly accessible to private and state actors alike, the new and unsettling threat of space terrorism looms above Earth's atmosphere.

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

While aboard, astronauts have conducted thousands of studies, from tracking space’s effects on the human body to exploring ...

Astronomers have produced the first-ever three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system — WASP-18b — marking a ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

By Saturday morning, the two space complexes in central Florida are hoping to have launched five missions in one week, ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...