Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to...
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To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became...
While SpaceX continues to test its Starship and Super Heavy rocket in Texas, Space Force officials in...
In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star....
There’s always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to...
A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune...
In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades...
Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on...
NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented precision—continues...
Imagine trying to predict wind patterns as air flows across a landscape. It’s a straightforward task over...
A recent study led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the nonprofit...
A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a “key” that will harmonize...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge...
A flying piece of cosmic rock or an alien threat? Comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through our solar...
Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion...
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared...
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift....
NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of...