Space

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

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen.

Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you

A chemical element that’s not even in H2O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a

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

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar

One of the most compelling potential signs of extraterrestrial communication might have an astrophysical explanation. Called the “Wow!” signal, the