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Scientists find youngest exoplanet on record — a 'newborn' named Elias That's one big baby.

Space weather caused a 16-minute train delay in 1848: 'Our research has a hint of a detective story' A storm sent a surge of current through telegraph wires that caused a train on one of Britain's early railway lines to be delayed by 16 minutes.

The battlefield now extends all the way to the moon, U.S. military's highest-ranking officer says The battlefield that the U.S. military must prepare for and excel in now extends from the seafloor all the way out to the moon, according to Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket-landing team gets 1st-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize The SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team received the first-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night (Sept. 15).

Roman Space Telescope starts waking up as NASA powers on instruments for the 1st time NASA has begun flipping on the instruments aboard the Roman Space Telescope to prepare the observatory for its scientific mission as it travels nearly a million miles to its final destination in orbit.

The universe's most extreme dead stars can form from vampire white dwarfs — and scientists finally know how Some vampire white dwarfs that feed on companion stars can transform into neutron stars, but like a cosmic Goldilocks, conditions must be "just right" for this extreme makeover.

On this day in space! Sept. 16, 1949: A US launch of a V-2 rocket explodes, killing its monkey passenger Albert III On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. Here's how it happened and why it mattered.

Colossal cosmic cloud revealed in insane new image from the James Webb Space Telescope | Space photo of the day for Sept. 16, 2026 James Webb Space Telescope spies colossal cosmic cloud | Space photo of the day for Sept. 16, 2026

'Lost in Space': Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his lavish new encyclopedia of the cosmos (interview) Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses his latest book, "Lost in Space," a gorgeously illustrated 400-page odyssey around the heavens.

Steven Spielberg's alien conspiracy movie 'Disclosure Day' finally hits a streaming service in October This summer's sci-fi mystery about alien conspiracies finally lands on the streamer next month.