NASA awarded three-year contracts to Astroscale U.S., BAE Systems, Busek, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is giving astronomers a rare, close look at material that formed far beyond our planetary ...

Although scientists have long predicted the existence of these elusive objects, confirmation only came after Hubble observations showed the cloud to be completely star-free.

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

As each year winds to a close, The Inquirer and Mirror takes a look back on a month-by-month basis at the highs and lows, the joy and heartbreak, that made ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Capping 2025 and welcoming 2026, I ask my readers to bear with my being starstruck in the last two columns. I started a star trek of sorts this year, writing as a scientist, hoping to encourage ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a stellar explosion from a time when the cosmos was still in its infancy, catching the light of a supernova that detonated less than a billion years after ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...