Space

In the science-fiction series Dune, the desert-dwelling Fremen of the arid planet Arrakis recycle their body’s moisture using specially designed […]

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a middleweight black hole in the nearby universe. The discovery could help solve

Head-scratching observations of distant galaxies are challenging cosmologists’ dominant ideas about the universe, potentially leading to the implication that the

Keep your eyes on the night sky this summer, scanning for the constellation Corona Borealis, and if you are lucky,

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos.

The star marking true north is a good deal heavier than we thought. The North Star is 5.1 times as

To leave a lasting trail, meteors need to aim low. A new survey of shooting stars shows that meteors that

For millennia, humans have seen inexplicable things in the sky. Some have been beautiful, some have been terrifying, and some

A new look at decades-old data from the Apollo missions has uncovered evidence of tens of thousands of previously unrecognized

NASA’s Perseverance rover has bagged its first hint of ancient microbes on Mars. “We’re not able to say that this