The astronauts speak out after returning from an unexpected nine-month mission that was extended following vehicle issues en ...

New approach could aid “multi-messenger” astronomy by quickly locating sources of gravitational waves emitted during these ...

Here are some NASA's most mysterious space signals: A powerful 72-second radio signal detected by the Big Ear radio telescope ...

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

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

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

Deep-sea samples reveal traces of past cosmic explosions, prompting researchers to seek further proof in lunar soil.

Key PointsCollaborative research has advanced an understanding of how colloidal clusters form and behave in microgravityThe ...

The Antennae Galaxies are filled with black holes and neutron stars, speeding up the process of star formation and change. Saturn's rings, first observed by Galileo 400 years ago, have since become ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made a ... Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever ...