Hubble’s latest look at Messier 96 reveals a warped spiral galaxy glowing with rings of stellar birth. The new details shed light on how stars emerge and influence their surroundings.

The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

The 1970s represented an era of unprecedented technological optimism when experts confidently predicted that Americans ...

Crucially, Alien: Earth has kept the key pillars that helped make "Alien" and "Aliens" all-time classics — the eggs, the ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Semaglutide is helping patients achieve weight loss previously achievable only with bariatric surgery. But at what cost?

One of the studies, led by Dr. Aleksandra Sokołowska of Brown University and Imperial College London, has identified 258 ...

The president's budget request called for about a 20 percent cut, overall, to NASA's budget, at a top-line level of $18.81 billion. By contrast, the House budget proposes to keep funding levels nearly ...

Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi hosts Particles of Thought, a new science podcast with leading experts on space, biology and discovery from GBH and the producers of NOVA.

It sounds like something from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But scientists have revealed the terrifyingly high odds a black hole will explode in the next 10 years.

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...