Science experienced many first-of-a-kind feats this year. These are the groundbreaking achievements that grabbed our attention. Glowing threads of gas, galaxies and dark matter provided the first ...

We’ve now seen farther, deeper and more clearly into space than ever before. A stellar birthplace, a nebula surrounding a dying star, a group of closely interacting galaxies, the first spectrum of an ...

Four centuries ago, Johannes Kepler established three laws of planetary motion that accurately describe how planets in the solar system orbit the Sun. That might be enough for most; however, befitting ...

NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar ...