For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L.

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Astronomers say the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

One year after the 2025 Los Angeles fires, Caltech researchers are pressing forward with research projects to provide answers ...

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will set an agency record when he makes his 10th ever spacewalk Jan. 8, 2026, along with Zena ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

A research team led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has presented a new way to produce hydrogen gas without the ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...