The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...
Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, ...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...
The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...
You won't see a majestic line of planets on Jan. 25 the way people on social media promise, but you will see four bright planets starting Jan. 16.
On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...
The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the way back to the genius of Sir ...
BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...