A Canadian telescope spotted eight more repeating fast radio bursts. What causes these cryptic flashes of radio waves from deep space remains unclear.
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NASA’s TESS telescope has spotted an old star that spins too fast for theory to explain, suggesting that stars may have a magnetic midlife crisis.
NASA’s TESS telescope has spotted a world that could be a bridge between other types of exoplanets: hot Jupiters and scorched Earths.
Some of the sun’s fundamental physics have been re-created with plasma inside a vacuum chamber
The U.S. space agency has released new images for the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s 20th birthday.
India’s Chandrayaan 2 mission just launched, hoping to become the first Indian spacecraft to land on the moon.
New research has prompted a rethink of the theory that gaps in planet-forming disks around young stars mark spaces where planets are being created.
NASA wouldn’t let our reporter touch the Apollo moon rocks. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
In its second sampling attempt, Hayabusa2 became the first spacecraft to try to pick up some of an asteroid’s guts.
If giant planets in other star systems lose their moons, the freed objects could become “ploonets,” and current telescopes may be able to find them.