Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center is playing a key role in first manned lunar mission in 50 years.

Jupiter steals the spotlight in January as it reaches its brightest and biggest appearance of the year. The month also features a Moon–Saturn meetup and the steady glow of the Beehive Cluster for binocular-ready observers.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

Fresh off a record-shattering launch cadence in 2025, SpaceX is planning to fly its first…

The oldest river predates the dinosaurs. But how do we know this?

Asteroid 16 Psyche is easy to find this evening as it moves less than two degrees north of Aldebaran in Taurus the Bull.

The planets finally aligned for friends who spent two years trying to recreate an iconic movie scene.

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal.

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, launched on Sept. 7th, 2023. Its advanced imaging filters and spectrometers were designed to study black holes and neutron s…

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may be interacting, offering a rare window into the darkest recesses of the cosmos.

Molecules in liquids have baffled scientists by making a flash of light disappear. Here’s how they did it!

Are these the world’s oldest rocks? Canada may hold the key to Earth's ancient secrets.

Scientists have discovered a fungus thriving in Chernobyl’s ruins—one of the most hostile environments on Earth.

Happy new year! If you're a redhead, the pigments in your hair are protecting you from cellular damage. A post-stroke injection comprising regenerative nanomaterial can protect the brain. And researchers have developed a method to extract rare earth elements …

Although the gut renews itself constantly, its stem cells accumulate age-related molecular changes that quietly alter how genes are switched on and off. Scientists found that this “epigenetic drift” follows a clear pattern and appears in both aging intestines…

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this is a newly found type of star-forming galaxy.

A photographer went out to capture the beauty of the northern lights, but what he didn’t expect was a special visitor.

A teenage prodigy just earned a PhD in quantum physics, at 15. Now, he's diving into AI and human biology with one goal in mind: to reengineer life itself.

A mysterious 10-second flash from deep space has shattered records and stunned scientists. Detected by a new satellite and confirmed by the James Webb Telescope, this ancient explosion is forcing experts to rethink what they thought they knew about the early …

Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth.

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-ba…

The study is based only on simulated scenarios, but real-world changes happening in Antarctica are already affecting the planet.

A study found that the Thwaites' Eastern Ice Shelf has compromised structural integrity due to continued fracturing over the years.

Make sure your sound is on for this one!

As Hurricane Helene battered Florida, NASA’s AWE mission detected atmospheric waves, hinting that extreme storms influence upper air layers.