For the first time, physicists have captured images of isolated atoms freely interacting in space. This breakthrough ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space— “free-range” particles never ...

Scientists have just snapped pictures of single atoms as they move around freely, capturing details once hidden from sight.

Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

(Ball Aerospace) The Space Force said Thursday its newest weather satellite is now operational and will soon be collecting and sharing key weather data with military planners and operators.

Seeing a rocket launch to space is not just something you watch but something you feel. Even from some distance away, the impact is immense, you can feel the reverberations in your chest and you ...

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch missions into orbit, according to a study soon to be published in the ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...

Space warfighting may include "seeking out and destroying an enemy's spacecraft." The U.S. Space Force continues to prepare to fight a war in Earth's orbit. For years, Space Force has been ...

mashed potatoes and desserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful. A European Space Agency (ESA) project is ...