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Astronomers have discovered a second example of a white dwarf pulsar, a rapidly spinning stellar remnant that could teach scientists more about stellar evolution.

A new system that uses subatomic particles produced high in Earth's atmosphere could provide a view inside volcanoes and help locate people trapped beneath rubble.

NASA's Aqua satellite spotted giant ice swirls stretching for hundreds of miles in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's P'yagina Peninsula.

Italy's Campi Flegrei is showing some troubling early warning signs, but scientists caution that its eruption is far from certain.

A new experiment by IBM computers shows that quantum computers could soon outperform classical digital computers at practical tasks in the next two years.

When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible.

Rocket Lab's Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) rocket blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Saturday, June 17.

Take a look at the very best space photos submitted by Space.com readers, from our moon to deep space and everything in between!

We may have already found evidence of an evolving, dynamic kind of dark energy, in the form of the radiation emitted when the first stars appeared in the universe.

Everyone knows what a lightsaber is, but what gives them their source of power? Learn all about kyber crystals and what they are.

Lightsabers are the most iconic Star Wars weapons, but their mechanics and complete history aren’t crystal clear. Here’s everything you need to know about them.

NASA held a flag-raising ceremony on Thursday (June 15) to recognize the Juneteenth holiday.

Europe's Mercury probe BepiColombo will take a close look at its target planet on Monday(June 19), and we can expect some exciting new images soon after that.

The crescent moon joins Mars, Venus and some of the brightest stars to kick off the summer 2024 skywatching season.

The U.S. Space Force recently opened the COSMIC center, a new office aimed at taking advantage of a thriving commercial space industry.

The way humans pump groundwater from the planet's interior has changed Earth's tilt by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) between 1993 and 2010.

Space.com experienced the Tron: Lightcycle Run ride at Walt Disney World. Here's what you can expect from this high-speed cyberpunk adventure.

Sally Ride's journey to space not only continues to inspire young students 4 decades later, but shows the value of diversity and respect, a woman engineering dean argues.

SpaceX will launch an Indonesian communications satellite to orbit and land the returning rocket at sea this evening (June 18), and you can watch it live.

A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from China on June 15, carrying 41 satellites to orbit. China's previous single-launch record, set just a few days earlier, was 26 satellites.

NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped a photo of a lightning strike high in the swirling clouds near Jupiter's north pole.