A good pilot episode can tell us a lot about where a "Star Trek" spinoff is going -- although a solid debut doesn't necessarily guarantee a stellar series run.

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Astronomers say a newly discovered solar system about 116 light years from Earth is challenging long held ideas about how planets form.According to CNN, researchers using telescopes from NASA ...

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific ...

41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak is now known to be in the Jupiter family of comets, going from a little inside Jupiter's orbit to almost as far as Earth on its 5.4-year orbit. It is notable for its large ...

Is the cosmos trying to contact us? We explore the most compelling evidence that objects like 3I/ATLAS and 'Oumuamua might be more than just space rocks - they could be interstellar probes. From ...

This artist’s illustration depicts NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in space. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with ...

Texas lawmakers have been pushing to move the space shuttle Discovery from Virginia to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has suggested Discovery may not be ...

Texas lawmakers have sought to move the space shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Houston's Johnson Space Center. New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has suggested Discovery may remain in Virginia ...