The streaking Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) has met a dramatic end, disintegrating as it approached its closest point to the sun this week.
An observatory high in the mountains of Mexico has recorded repeated emission of some of the highest-energy gamma rays ever recorded from a single point close to the galactic center.
One of the great mysteries of the Universe is where all the metal actually comes from.
Approximately 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field briefly reversed during what is known as the Laschamp event. Now scientists has created a sound visualization of this event.
Lightning storms on our planet can dislodge particularly high-energy, or "extra-hot" electrons from the inner radiation belt - a region of space enveloped by charged particles that surround Earth like an inner tube.
A set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories for more than 90 percent of meteorites today.
NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life.
A new NASA-led study suggests that a potential exomoon may be orbiting the exoplanet WASP-49 b, a gas giant located 635 light-years from Earth. The possible exomoon is believed to be rocky and volcanically active, similar to Jupiter's Io.
During the company's fifth Starship test flight, SpaceX successfully caught the spacecraft's Super Heavy booster using its "Mechazilla" tower, an unbelievable feat of engineering that required an immense amount of precision and experience.
By studying hot gas glowing in circumgalactic space, astrophysicists have found evidence of enormous magnetic fields that wind through and around our galaxy's dark matter 'halo'.
An international research team used the asteroid Bennu's tracking data to study the possible existence of a fifth fundamental force of the universe.
Astronomers refer to the Shapley Concentration as a "basin of attraction". It's a region containing many clusters and groups of galaxies and comprises the greatest concentration of matter in the local Universe.
TIC 290061484 is a system of gravitationally bound stars consisting of a tightly-orbiting binary pair with a third star that circles both. Astonishingly, they're so close together the entire system would fit inside the orbit of Mercury.
Ceres’ crust is probably made from 90% ice today. Using data from NASA’s Dawn mission, scientists found it was likely once a muddy ocean world.
Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive objects in the universe - with masses around one billion times more than that of the Sun.
