The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has been avoiding questions about severe cuts proposed to the agency’s budget by President ...

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Hubble images never fail to amaze.

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NASA’s plan to use new space suits for its anticipated 2028 moon landing mission is in jeopardy, according to a new report ...

Artists and scientists sent a silk-draped human sculpture into the stratosphere, capturing stunning footage. The Dorothy ...

Astronomers detect the most powerful space laser from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away, offering rare insights ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old. A team ...

The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that ...

Artemis 2 astronauts examine lunar rocks collected during the Apollo missions as part of their training. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — While the Artemis 2 mission is ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...