SpaceX launched its 12th mission of the month on Sunday, sending 23 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit.

For those who came of age during the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war was too horrific to contemplate. But could life survive an apocalypse?

How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries out there marks its opening on April 30, 2024.

The way we think about lightning tends to be somewhat directional.

Astronauts could exercise during lunar missions by running around the walls of a cylinder, like a motorbike around a "Wall of Death."

NASA's Webb Space Telescope captured new images of a horse-shaped nebula.Read more: https://www.kvue.com/article/tech/science/aerospace/nasa-webb-telescope-h...

Life isn't so bad. Take a moment to enjoy this stunning JWST image of the Horsehead Nebula. Your tax dollars may have paid for it.

Flaring stars, black hole outbursts and gamma-rays are just some of the cosmic exotica that Einstein Probe will hunt for.

The 12-minute featurette looks back at the epic flight and previews what's coming next.

Researchers leveraged deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to enable a robot to adaptively switch gaits, mimicking animal movements like trotting and pronking, to traverse complex terrains effectively.

A new study says large predator dinosaurs like the T. rex were not dim-witted as previously believed.

Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are remarkably long-lived. HSCs are blood-forming cells—they give rise to rapidly dividing progenitor cells, which in turn generate hundreds of billions of cells t…

Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills.

Lunar maps hadn't received significant updates since NASA's Apollo program. With a 12-year effort, a Chinese team changed the calculus.

Submillimeter wavelength radio observations of the Southern Ring Nebula have identified that it's actually a double ring, shaped by the interactions of three stars.

Researchers likened movement of the moon's stripes to the San Andreas fault.

Prehistoric cold viruses are hard to find in the historical record, but scientists have unearthed some evidence in ancient human teeth.

In the race to understand the potential habitability of Saturn's icy and active moon, Enceladus, scientists could have a newfound understanding of the moon's...

The photograph of space debris marks a first and progress in how to deal with space debris floating in the cosmos.

A record-breaking asteroid with the fastest spin disintegrates harmlessly over Germany. NASA's advanced warning system and asteroid tracker predicted the space rock's impact accurately.

Located 6,500 light-years away, this cosmic view is a rich tapestry of star formation.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These observations show the top of the “horse’s mane” or edge of this iconic …

Researchers who want to bridge the divide between biology and technology spend a lot of time thinking about translating between the two different "languages" of those realms.

The world's largest digital camera will soon begin an epic journey to a Chilean mountaintop.