In 1974, astronomers sent a call out into the cosmos from a massive telescope in Puerto Rico. The anniversary of the message brings reflections on a new missive to the stars and grief for a lost ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

This novel solar-driven sponge produces 3.47 kg of water per kg daily from arid air while generating electricity, offering ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

Occasionally, during explosions called coronal mass ejections, the Sun releases charged particles that speed across the solar ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

Mars is an interesting planet with many unexpected features. For one, it is not a sphere, but rather what is called a ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...