NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launches two small spacecraft to Mars to study magnetic fields, solar wind and the risks and limits of lower-cost space science.

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The Würzburg-led research unit “Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies” has been investigating the powerful plasma beams emitted by supermassive black holes since 2021. Now the DFG has extended its ...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for ...

The Korea AeroSpace Administration said on Thursday that the Nuri rocket’s main payload, the next-generation medium-sized ...

New study of Voyager 2 data shows Uranus experienced a solar wind event during the 1986 flyby, helping explain unusual magnetosphere readings ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for.

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...