Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

Explore the physics behind traveling from the Earth to the Moon and discover where gravity effectively becomes zero. Learn how gravitational forces balance, why astronauts feel weightless, and how ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun for months, revealing how its magnetic structure evolved over time. Our sun ...

Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

New research has unveiled the awesome power of newly-discovered "space hurricanes." In 2014, an unusual phenomenon appeared in space, miles above the North Pole. It looked like a hurricane you might ...

A quantum computer has reached new heights. The first quantum computer in space is now orbiting Earth on a satellite, scientists report. Launched on June 23, the computer had to be designed to fit in ...