Although humanity is getting better at sending robotic probes out into the Solar System to explore the places no human can tread, we're still very much on a learning curve.

The Inouye Solar Telescope captured magnetic, silk-like "stripes" on the solar surface called photospheric striations.

Base officials say the launch window for the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit will begin at 7:05 p.m. and continue through 11:05 p.m. Monday.

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.

Before our Sun, what the first stars have hidden for 13 billion years?

Scientists have discovered a mind-bending organism that challenges everything we know about life, blurring the lines between cells and viruses.

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.

Astronomers stunned by infinity galaxy and possible newborn black hole.

Dark comets may be stalking space closer than we think.

So much for heliocentrism. An international team of astronomers using observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence that there's ...

A 1964 satellite, Relay 2, emitted an extreme radio pulse in 2025; ASKAP detected it and reactivated alerts.

New satellite data shows parts of New Orleans are sinking fast, including floodwalls meant to protect the city from storms.

By analyzing oxygen isotopes in dinosaur teeth, scientists revealed Mesozoic CO₂ highs, plant growth surges, and volcanic impacts.

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system at a blistering speed. It's only ...

For decades, strange glowing patches in Antarctica’s seas baffled scientists.

Now-famous CCTV footage from March confirms faulting dynamics that researchers could previously only infer.

Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon Project Kuiper spacecraft is scheduled for 8:57 a.m. ET (1257 GMT) on Sunday (Aug. 10).

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a...

Building on the Moon? This solar-powered machine makes the idea more real than ever.

For 25 years, scientists have studied “SuperAgers”—people aged 80 and above whose memory rivals those decades younger.

If confirmed, this might help solve a long-standing mystery about our Sun.

It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of Mars, a sharp panorama color altered to make the sky blue (???). California health authorities are warning hunters and trappers about con…

Motherhood is one of nature’s most selfless and beautiful instincts, and not only humans but other animals too experience it. Here are 7 animals that are known to adopt babies if other species, and it shows that their love has no bounds:

Four new species of tarantula have been discovered – and if they knew the name they were going to get, they might have presented themselves sooner.