A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) captured amazing ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope have collected first-of-its-kind evidence for cloud formation on ...

A new report on the U.S.'s readiness in the face of threats from space has revealed concerns about our vulnerability to major ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they’d found a molecule in a faraway planet’s atmosphere that could signal life there. But a new analysis by University of Chicago ...

A team of astronomers discovered that planet-forming materials can survive and persist even in some of the most extreme ...

Scientific American spoke with the astronomer who has contributed to the discovery of two thirds of Saturn’s known moons ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...