WASHINGTON — Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C.-based space technology startup, is adapting navigation software originally developed by NASA for military use under a U.S. Space Force contract, ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

ISRO has opened the first Announcement of Opportunity for Aditya-L1, inviting scientists to propose studies using solar ...

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Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The asteroid, 2025 MN45, completes a full rotation once every 1.88 minutes, meaning it must have a very high strength to keep ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

2026 is highlighted as the year of the singularity with Elon Musk warning of underestimated impacts; conversations with him ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort ...