The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Instead of the sharp, groundbreaking visuals many expected, the recently unveiled images were surprisingly blurry, a result ...

NASA declares no threat from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS but launches a secret planetary-defence mission as the object exhibits unusual behaviour near the Sun.

The United States is treating a strange visitor from deep space as both a scientific windfall and a potential national ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Unlike previous missions, Chandrayaan-4 aims to land on the lunar south pole, use an advanced robotic system to collect 2kg ...

NASA is publicly insisting that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS poses no danger to Earth, even as the agency and its ...

KEY FINDINGS The latest thermal frame reveals jets that refuse to obey the Sun. The anti-tail points into the solar wind as ...