A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has made history — not just for its payload, but for the way it appeared crossing the Sun in a ...

The Sun is flaring up unexpectedly; a 60-year diabetes mystery may finally be solved; the oldest human mummies aren't what we expected; and much more! Our Sun Is Becoming More Active And NASA Doesn't ...

Earlier, experts from the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that flare activity is slowly beginning to grow on the Sun ...

On September 19, the 2025 Galaxy Science Fiction Conference grandly opened in Chengdu. This year's conference, themed 'Before the Future: Enjoying the Future', offers a three-day science fiction ...

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

Austin Peay State University has received a National Science Foundation planning grant to enhance student success by ensuring engineering physics and engineering technology students find their ideal ...

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

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

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study of octopus arms.

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...