Space

Late is better than never for the ‘Blaze Star’ T Coronae Borealis. It was on track to be the top

As it maneuvers into position for a landing attempt, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured some gorgeous video of the

A US company is aiming for its second lunar touchdown after a lander carrying a suite of unique experiments successfully

NASA expects to soon launch a mission to create the most colorful 3D map of the entire sky yet. Known

The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to

Its ruddy complexion is the defining characteristic of Mars, the idiosyncrasy that marks it out from all the other planets

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about five-and-a-half billion light-years away. The foreground

The edge of the Solar System is a strange place, full of oddities we’ve only just begun to probe. But

Mars – dusty, dry, and desert-clad – was once so rich in water it had not just lakes, but oceans,

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth’s night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven

What’s the story of our Moon’s early history? Despite all we know about our closest natural satellite, scientists are still

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy may not be as voracious as the gas-gobbling

Anthropogenic signals are a huge problem in radio astronomy. In the process of solving a curious mystery, US researchers have

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in

A survey to reveal the unseen majority of the Universe has just turned up a treasure trove of black holes

One planet was missing from the sunset lineup… until now. Perhaps you’ve seen the news headlines admonishing sky watchers to

The Phoenix Cluster is one of the most massive galaxy clusters known. Astronomers have identified 42 member galaxies so far,

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA

Around a star 880 light-years from Earth orbits one of the wildest, most extreme exoplanets we’ve found to date. Its

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: could you kill a man

In the Milky Way’s central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling

Planets are born in swirling disks of gas and dust around young stars. Astronomers are keenly interested in the planet

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large

An exoplanet with some key ingredients to support life may be lurking closer than we thought. Around a star just

Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in

High-energy particles rain down on Earth constantly, but scientists have now detected a doozy: a neutrino blasting in from deep

The appearance of the Interstellar Objects (ISOs) Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of

Incredibly powerful marsquakes that violently shake the red planet don’t always begin under the surface, research shows. A new study

A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University