As humanity moves from brief space missions toward longer stays — driven by commercial ambitions for moon bases and eventual Martian settlements — scientists are beginning to confront how the

A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars even before they slam together; their magnetospheres, the most powerful magnetic fields

The sun is certainly putting on quite the show this week. Earlier today (Feb. 4), it fired off another powerful solar flare, this time an X4.2, briefly disrupting radio communications

Only three things in life are certain: Death, taxes and ‘This content is not available in your region’. We can’t do much about those first two, but with the best

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant galaxy yet detected, NASA announced Wednesday (Jan. 28), allowing astronomers to peer closer than ever before to the era when

After a major winter storm swept across the country in late January, a prolonged surge of Arctic air tightened its grip on large areas of the U.S. pushing temperatures well

With NASA’s Artemis 2 mission set to return humans to the moon for the first time in over 50 years, the stakes have never been higher. While the Artemis 2

Despite the recent delay in Artemis 2’s launch (now postponed until March due to the discovery of hydrogen fuel leaks during the “wet dress rehearsal”), Artemis fever is very much

A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to belong to a group of comets that in some cases

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have built a detailed map of dark matter, showing the density of this mysterious stuff across a field of view that encompasses around