On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is “exceeding performance expectations,”...
Astronomy is driven by big questions, and they don’t come much bigger than wondering how the first stars and galaxies...
A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy....
A global open-source dataset of high-resolution images of Earth—the most extensive and detailed of its kind—has been developed by experts...
A few days after officially starting science operations, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope propelled astronomers into a realm of...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has begun exploring an area the science team calls “Yori Pass” near the base of Jezero...
A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint...
Standing on a rock glacier is what Tyler Meng imagines it would be like to stand on the surface of...
Is there life in Martian caves? It’s a good question, but it’s not the right question—yet. An international collaboration of...
New details surrounding the dark cloud L1527 and its protostar have been revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The...
The Winchcombe meteorite, a rare carbonaceous meteorite which crashed onto a driveway in Gloucestershire in 2021, has been found to...
An international team of scientists led by a University of Sydney astrophysicist has discovered evidence the Andromeda galaxy is a...
