Long before researchers discovered the electron and its role in generating electrical current, they knew about electricity and were exploring its potential. One thing they learned early on was that metals were great conductors of both electricity and heat.

Hiding within the huge catalog of newly found pulsars are several "spider pulsars," or neutron stars that devour their companion stars.

Generative AI is crowned as App Store Trend of the Year. As is tradition around this time of the year, Apple announced its App Store Award winners for...

Experts have been saying that the aurora-like formations can invite problems that are not known or familiar to communication and astronomy researchers.

It was Touch-and-Go there for a few seconds...literally! OSIRIS-REx had only six seconds to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu – in a maneuver called TAG, or...

The first asteroid target of NASA's Lucy mission hosts an unexpected "contact binary" satellite. Scientists have named it "Selam."

A group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their ste…

SpaceX rockets are tearing huge holes in the Earth's atmosphere as they make their return to the surface, triggering "SpaceX auroras."

A dazzling new James Webb telescope image of the region near the Milky Way's central black hole reveals thousands of newborn stars among the "most extreme cosmic environment" in the galaxy.

Ever want to play a game of cosmic billiards? That's commonly how the DART mission was described when it successfully changed the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid last year. If you want an idea of how it works, just Google it and an Easter egg from the search g…

The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has an official name. On Nov. 27, 2023, the International Astronomical Union approved the name "Selam" or ሰላም, which means "peace" in the Ethiopian language Amharic, for Dinki…

Chasing the elusive aurora isn't easy, but your chances of success are higher with a few key pointers.

NASA is taking steps to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972—in a mission called Artemis III. NASA and its contractors made...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved brother, Vincent Paul Uchytil, who left us on November 29, 2023 Vince was 78 years old. Vinnie, as he was fondly called by friends and family, was born on August 5, 1945 to Frank and Mary Uc…

As NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter made its 59th flight on Mars – achieving its second highest altitude while taking pictures of this flight – the Perseverance Mars rover was watching. See two perspectives of this 142-second flight that reached an altitude of 66 …

The stars of the Milky Way glisten in the night sky above Chile's Valle de la Luna in a new photo from the European Southern Observatory.

NASA has revealed a new false-color image of Alaska's Malaspina Glacier that highlights several recent findings about the massive ice mass.

Webb peers at colorful stellar nursery.

A cornerstone but surprising prediction arising from Einstein's theory of general relativity is the existence of black holes, which astronomers later found to be widespread throughout the universe. Key characteristics of black holes include their masses and t…

An unstable gyroscope has forced NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to enter safe mode, resulting in a temporary suspension of its scientific observations.

Astronomers have spotted a massive young star in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star is surrounded by a disk where planets may form.

One of Hubble's gyroscopes is providing faulty readings, but the telescope remains in "good health" otherwise.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in in the Large Magel...

The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.

Researchers have now developed an innovative analytical method that combines different specialized techniques, including flow cytometry, to characterize and count microplastics.