NASA is preparing to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. The 3-year mission will expose astronauts to a...
If you see the northern lights overhead, chances are you are in a chilly, polar climate. But the cold-weather delights—also...
Astronomy’s newest mystery objects—odd radio circles, or ORCs—have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using...
The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it—and it’s...
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these...
NASA’s massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad on Thursday ahead of a battery...
Bright and dark swirling patterns on the Moon’s surface have been linked to the topography of the swirls, says a...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the brightest millisecond-duration astronomical transients in radio bands with a yet unknown origin. The polarization...
A team of scientists found NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of...
NASA’s new space telescope has gazed into the distant universe and shown perfect vision: a spiky image of a faraway...
Our solar system is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which...
