After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive black holes. The structure reveals unimaginable energy levels and ...

Stars and satellites are meeting more frequently in the night sky, raising vital questions about the future of astronomy. As one half of the International Gemini Observatory, the Gemini North ...

COMMENT | The headlines are only the headlines. If the recent school stabbing had taken place in a remote town, we would have passed it off with typical urban detachment as a “shocking crime” that ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us who ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science ...

A 192-acre former NASA campus near Rosman in Transylvania County is up for sale at $30 million, offering a potential buyer access to a space-race era facility that has long been the site of ...

The discovery of a possible "super-Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an ...

NASA has quietly made a major move to defend the planet after the mysterious interstellar object displayed more strange and unexplainable behavior. The supposed comet, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has just been ...

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for Synspective today (Oct. 14), the seventh spacecraft it ...