There’s more to studying outer space than looking through telescopes and analyzing the mineral compounds in samples collected ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

The HiRise camera is living up to its name, capturing a rare look at the veteran rover from way up in Martian orbit.

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...

The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich.

This film offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes view of NASA’s Mission Control during a 1960s spaceflight, likely part of the ...

Romulus's revelations, Michael Fassbender's Prometheus character David has never been more central to the Alien franchise's ...

Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, becoming what is called a red giant. New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

But when he unwittingly activates the Chronolith—an ancient alien device—reality shatters. Jen vanishes, and Bale is trapped in a fractured world where time loops and echoes of the past and ...

In 2023, scientists discovered a star nearing the end of its life had swelled and absorbed a planet that is likely about the size of Jupiter. open image in gallery NASA’s James Webb Space ...

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...