Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, leaving something behind. A dense plasma, made of fundamental particles ...

How did the universe form? A few things we know about the universe: it’s infinite, it’s littered with black holes, and thinking about it can make your brain hurt. And one of those things we don’t know ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

Recently, astronomers have made significant breakthroughs in the study of the 3I/ATLAS comet. This comet is the third interstellar visitor we have discovered to date, coming from other stellar systems ...

On Nov. 6, NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed within 234 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The purpose of this close flyby was to accomplish a gravity-assist maneuver, in which the probe would ...

New research from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that solar flare particles can reach more than 100 million ...

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It was super cool." ...

What happens when you hurl molecules faster than sound through a vacuum chamber nearly as cold as space itself? At the ...