Russia disposed of a leaky supply ship that had been docked at the International Space Station over...
Science & Astronomy
A stream of solar plasma arrived at Earth last night (Feb. 16), supercharging the atmosphere with particles...
On Feb. 18, 1930, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto! Before he discovered Pluto, another astronomer...
The first asteroid to be visited by NASA’s space rock-hopping craft Lucy has finally been given a...
Warm Neptune-size exoplanets are not nearly as common as super-Earths or hot Jupiters — and we are...
When neutron stars collide, the explosions they create are perfectly spherical, a new study finds. This contradicts...
Astronomers have discovered new auroras over Jupiter’s four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, observable at...
Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo,...
New X-ray observations of the sun could help crack the mystery of the star’s inexplicably hot outer...
NASA managed to image an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building and with similar proportions as...
