The Science Center of Iowa is reopening its "Small Discoveries" exhibit, featuring new interactive elements for children, ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

Webb spots a bizarre exoplanet with a carbon-rich atmosphere orbiting a pulsar, defying theories of how planets form.

The science behind Santa’s magical ability to traverse the world in one night to deliver toys and joy may always remain a ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

This week, Earth will get its best chance to steady an interstellar comet as it makes its closest approach to the planet.

The interstellar comet discovered this summer could be visible this week as it makes one last pass near our planet.

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will in a matter of days come as close to our planet ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, and will be visible with binoculars ...

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...