In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

A study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has revealed a previously unknown pathway plants use to detect ...

Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this ...

In the world of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking’s predictions about black holes have always sparked fascination and debate. Recent data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has provided the clearest ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...