NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions.

In 2022, NASA hit Dimorphos with a spacecraft. But looking back through the data, astronomers believe they have found evidence of an impact event prior to the big test.

NASA’s DART images reveal binary asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos exchanging dust and debris, offering new insight into how ...

Born on 25 November 1941, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi was a controversial figure in modern spirituality and eschatology. He became a popular Sufi preacher in Pakistan during the late 1970's and founded the ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an ...

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations.

Starfactory: In early 2022, SpaceX broke ground on a massive new facility known as the Starfactory at its Starbase site in ...

Astronomers have found an exoplanet that could serve as a benchmark in future studies. It's a rocky planet orbiting an M-type star, and though these planets are plentiful, this one could serve as a ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in microscopic spaces.

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ...