NASA is about to lock in a verdict on how long its Perseverance rover can keep working on Mars, and the answer will shape the ...

Smithsonian scientists are working on a lunar vault that will cryopreserve animal cells from Earth’s most endangered species.

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Under slave laws, the necessity for color rankings was obvious, but in America today, post-civil-rights legislation, white people’s conviction of their ...

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...