Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts...
Add one more crater to the long list of pockmarks on the lunar surface. According to orbital calculations, a rocket...
More than 30 years ago the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many almost invisible yet enormously luminous...
Scientists from around the world have published data that will help astronomers better understand what they see in space, and...
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just...
Many coronal loops—ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun’s atmosphere—may actually be optical illusions,...
An international team of scientists has found new biomarkers that can be used for diagnostic purposes and potentially as predictive...
On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet project, most of which burned...
Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time...
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a...
On March 4, 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into the surface of the Moon at nearly 6,000...
The physics and chemistry that take place deep inside our planet are fundamental to the existence of life as we...
