Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled the surprising resilience of certain bacteria, capable of surviving the harsh vacuum of ...

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different ...

A student-led experiment compares bacterial protein synthesis on Earth and in the ISS under microgravity conditions.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...