Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing is, ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...