This could be another Sputnik moment. Only this time the finger is pointed at China instead of the USSR.

In its latest image release, the Rubin Observatory previews what a decade of repeated observations could reveal.

New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world.

The result is a fish that disintegrates into thousands of floating pieces.

After a discouraging run of bare, airless rocks, astronomers have finally caught a habitable-zone exoplanet hanging onto its sky.

For some black holes, one collision is apparently not enough.

The pharmaceutical cabinet of the future might look a lot like a garden.

A new study finds that Uranus' moons almost certainly didn't survive the solar system's violent early chaos intact.

The winds on seven hellish alien worlds are moving in the wrong direction. That strange anomaly just cracked open one of exoplanet science's biggest mysteries.

Scientists have found planet and star formations somewhere that was the last place they thought it could occur.

The experimental jet was built to kill the sonic boom. First, it has to survive going supersonic.

A new study finds pollution from satellite megaconstellations could account for 42% of the space sector’s climate impact by 2029.