NASA is finally headed back to Venus. On June 2, 2021, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency had...
It’s hard to tell what’s lurking out there, in the dark voids between the stars. Evidence, however, suggests the existence...
At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. “I try to nurture that,”...
The widely studied metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche was long thought to be the exposed iron core of a...
You would not be surprised to see an elephant in the savanna or a plate in your kitchen. Based on...
A huge cluster of stars has been found lurking in the Milky Way, just a relatively short cosmic distance from...
A team of Leiden astronomers has managed to calculate the first 100 million years of the history of the Oort...
NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds. The...
Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Europa is increasingly looking like the best place in the Solar System to search for extraterrestrial life....
Russia is planning to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to the Moon, then Venus, then Jupiter. Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency, announced...
When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity’s first steps out of...
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing list of weird things...
