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In the middle of Mauritania’s Sahara Desert, surrounded by an ocean of sand, lies a colossal stone spiral that seems almost too perfect to be natural. From orbit, in a

The final full moon of 2025 treated stargazers to a high-flying lunar spectacle as the “Cold Moon” glowed among the stars of the constellation Taurus on Dec. 4. December’s full

A team of international researchers say they’ve uncovered new data on the world’s first recorded solar eclipse using a surprising source — ancient Chinese texts. These findings could help us

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams of newborn stars and the ongoing gravitational tug-of-war

It may be curtains for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), but the final data from its nearly 20 years of observations have laid out a roadmap for the future investigation

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Thursday (Dec. 4), sending 28 of them up from California’s central coast. A Falcon 9 rocket topped

Galaxies residing in a huge filament of dark matter have been found to be mostly rotating in the same direction that the filament is spinning. It’s a discovery that challenges

Ed Markey is persistent. In April, during Jared Isaacman’s first nomination hearing for the post of NASA administrator, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts asked repeatedly if SpaceX founder and CEO

Radiation levels in Earth’s atmosphere rose to the highest level in nearly two decades in November after a rare solar super-flare pummeled the planet with high-speed particles from the sun.

If there ever was a planet that has gotten a bad rap for its inability to be readily observed it would have to be Mercury, known in some circles as