A new study is piecing together the life and afterlife of the Xiaohe culture, an ancient Chinese civilization.

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, ...

Astronomers have discovered a "jellyfish" galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive "bunny ...

CW Leonis, a massive red giant star, is in the final throes of its life, undergoing a violent transformation as it nears the ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Over the past decade, a U.K.-based nuclear propulsion ... be stored on giant orbital docking stations each designed to host up to five at a time, Richard Dinan, CEO of Pulsar Fusion, told Gizmodo ...

Other companies are working on nuclear fusion engines for space propulsion, including Pasadena-based Helicity Space, which received investment from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin in 2024.

Type One Energy published peer-reviewed papers on its pilot nuclear ... a giant multinational science project based in France. Other technologies use lasers to ignite a fusion reaction by rapidly ...

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy ... shows the rapid building in 2024 of a giant new laser-fusion site in China. The containment dome where ...