When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex...
If you’re lucky, when you look up at the night sky, you’ll see thousands and thousands of...
Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known...
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two...
When an international crew of astronauts launch on a commercial space mission, they will be joined by...
The company aims to create a digital proving ground for AI systems across air, land, sea, and...
The lander won't be visible from Earth, but its landing site on Mare Frigoris will be.
Astro Bits Podcast. Episode 11: Astro Wife Asks – Space Incorporated: The Rise of the Astropreneurs.
In this episode, we discuss the private companies that operate in space and what their ultimate goal...
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic explosions...
A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star —...
A satellite from the European Space Agency captured huge plumes of ash and smoke from Europe's largest...
Emmanuel Delgadillo from Jalisco, Mexico The Tadpoles, lying in the emission nebula IC 410, are stellar nurseries that...
It’s difficult for amateur astronomers to fully share the wonders of the night sky with a visually...
The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar...
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space,...
Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big...
Tokyo-based ispace hopes to succeed where its 2023 mission fell short, with a new lander, new software...
As the years go by the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But...
Built on a set in a specialist facility in Germany, a mockup of a lunar landscape is...
NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) undergoes testing to extract simulated regolith, or the loose,...