On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

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The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

"There's an old family legend that when my grandfather was a boy, he lost a $10 gold coin somewhere in the yard," Tami Nuxall told Newsweek.

Chinese researchers detected audible electromagnetic waves over 62,000 miles from Earth in a region where they weren't expected.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...