From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical ...

The Rarest Rare Metal When people think about rare & precious metals, they tend to think of the most common ones, like gold ...

A neutron star is defying the rules of the universe, emitting radio pulses from both its ends while moving extremely slowly.

Studies that explore how the denser sections of atoms, known as atomic nuclei, interact with neutrons (i.e., particles with ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

NS-31 will take off from Blue Origin's West Texas launch site on Monday, April 14 at 9:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT). As with past ...

"Vulcan certification adds launch capacity, resiliency and flexibility needed by our nation's most critical space-based ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very active M dwarf star. Its flare activity has been well-known to astronomers using ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

After 34 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James Webb Space ...

Scientists are studying nuclear pasta, dense formations within neutron stars with shapes akin to spaghetti and lasagna. This ...