By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

A recent study suggests that cyberattacks on future, AI-guided spacecraft could be thwarted by unpicking what the AI has been "thinking." ...

About a century before Glacier Bay became a national park, conservationist John Muir visited the landform now called Russell ...

Republicans have historically funded a lot of science, new research shows. President Trump might be bucking that trend.

Astronomers have obtained new images of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS that reveal a new feature: the fastest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near captured imagery of Jupiter and its moons Amalthea and Adrastea on July 27, 2022. Also visible in the false color Near Infrared Camara (NIRCam) images are the gas ...

NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, ...

In 2005, ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, revealing the atmosphere, landscapes, and chemistry of Saturn's moon.

Astronauts used the space station’s robot arm to pluck Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule from orbit as they soared over ...

What is an Einstein Cross? Foreground galaxies warp space-time and bend the light from a distant galaxy to create four ...

Illegal rare earth mining in Myanmar is polluting Thai border rivers. Satellite images show widespread damage, while Thai ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.