Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

As Los Angeles firefighters battle remaining hotspots more than a week into deadly blazes, scientists and engineers hope ...

Extreme fire: 'unprecedented risk' poorly understood In an era of town-torching megablazes spewing smoke plumes visible from space, scientists say there is still a lot they don't know about the ...

NASA-backed private stations rise, India nears crewed flight, China eyes new milestones, and SpaceX pushes Starship’s limits.

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link ...

A study has found that the controversial Endangered Species Act may actually boost property values in nearby communities.

"We have had a very detailed analysis of the maiden flight and obviously discovered a few anomalies and things that need to ...

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a parabolic flight. In this exclusive mini-documentary, Space.com reporter ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

At sunrise on Oct. 1, 2024, SL-15 launched into a perfectly clear blue sky over the desert from Spaceport America, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Hubble's first gigapixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy was published exactly ten years ago. This has now been ...