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

"We detected 1,678 galaxy groups or proto-clusters -- the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups ever detected -- with the James Webb Space Telescope. With this sample, we can study the evolution ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Can planets form and evolve within a protoplanetary disk—a region of gas and dust orbiting young stars—that is exposed to deadly ultraviolet ra | Space ...