While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a...
One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any...
New research has revealed that Venus, often considered Earth’s inhospitable twin, may share a surprising geological history with our own...
The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where...
Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white...
Get ready for a meteor shower doubleheader. The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks in late July. And this year,...
In studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally...
The sun rotates the fastest at the equator, whereas the rotation rate slows down at higher latitudes and is the...
A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of...
Our solar system is our immediate cosmic neighborhood. We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky...
Sealed inside a habitat in Texas and cut off from the outside world for over a year, Kelly Haston was...
By diving into the sun’s corona, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field...
