The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...

Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, pulled off a daring booster catch on its most ambitious test flight yet, but ...

Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon ...

The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...

The company, started by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reset its countdown clock repeatedly over a period of just over two ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

They may look like they’re arranged in tight formation. But remember, that’s a grand illusion. The planets’ orbits around the ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...