A better understanding of the electrical activity within auroras could help us protect our astronauts and satellites.

Astronomers propose that instead of a black hole, another dark object could be dominating the Milky Way's center.

You can never truly empty a box. Why? Zero-point energy.

A former SpaceX engineer and his startup, General Galactic, are looking to put the concept of turning water into rocket fuel to the test.

Can a tree protect itself if being eaten?

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such a transgenerational link has been clearly established.

The astronomers say the vast cave is a lava tube, providing the strongest evidence that these volcanic structures exist on Venus.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

An international team of scientists has identified how to pinpoint and predict hotspots for some of the most dangerous species of scorpion in the world. The researchers have established the key environmental conditions that determine where lethal, venomous ar…

VICTOR VALLEY, Calif. (VVNG.com) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch Saturday evening created a striking spiral plume that lit up the sky across the High Desert, surprising residents throughout the Vict

Four years ago, astronomers spotted a distant supermassive black hole swallowing an entire star.

Stephen Hawking used his fame to warn humanity about its potential — and rapidly approaching — end. He proposed space travel as a solution, but is that viable?

The collision could also be responsible for Saturn’s iconic rings, researchers say.

A deep space photographer spent months photographing the Crab Nebula and found his composite image, when compared with the 1999 image from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the supernova's expansion.

A few days ago, I co-authored a new paper with my brilliant postdoc, Richard Cloete, which reported here (and to a broader audience here)…

Early risers across the East Coast may get a special pre-dawn show Friday morning as NASA and SpaceX prepare to launch the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

"This is essentially as close as we can get to seeing the death of a massive star."

Floating pumice revealed Earth’s biggest submarine volcano eruption, hidden almost a kilometer beneath the Pacific for more than a decade.

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the galaxy's dark matter halo are two manifestations of the same, continuous substance."

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.

A runaway supermassive black hole may have been kicked out of its galaxy, leaving a vast 200,000-light-year streak of newborn stars in its wake.

The annular solar eclipse will see the moon cover the majority of the solar disk, surrounding it in a fiery halo.

Cracked open in a remote basin, two fossil eggs revealed crystal-lined hollows instead of embryos, and a mystery millions of years in the making.

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained operator, but seem as random as those o…

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove of organic molecules using the James Webb Space Telescope. Peering through the cosmic veil in infrared light, researchers detected an e…