Rocket Lab began 2026 with a powerful statement about the future of small satellite launches. On January 22, 2026, its ...

It has put two low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites into orbit, with the launch carried out by Rocket Lab from a site in New Zealand. The mission, called 'The Cosmos Will See You Now', enables Open Cosmos ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

For forty years, the “Standard Model” assumed dark matter must be cold. If it moved too fast (which would have made it hot), ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole new model to account for gravity’s influence.

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. Image credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab University of Portsmouth is a member of ...

A missing star in the Andromeda Galaxy has become a mystery to astronomers. This star suddenly vanished without any traces of ...

We know what will happen to the Sun and our Solar System because we can look outward into the galaxy and examine older Sun-like stars in their evolutionary end states.