On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, known as IBEX, has spent more than a decade mapping an invisible structure of magnetic ...

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These ...

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have captured a stunning image of a "cosmic jellyfish." This aquatic-creature-like galaxy, designated COSMOS2020-635829, was seen as it existed ...

An unusually intense signal from deep space has once again focused scientific attention on one of the universe’s most extreme ...

NASA should focus on the body and mind, not just engineering, for cosmic travel. Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space ...

For astronomical research, two satellites equipped with cosmic X-ray polarization detectors deployed an AI model that rapidly ...

IceCube's new UV-sensitive modules are expected to reveal neutrinos from distant galaxies, supernovae and other cosmic sources.