“Astronomy is not just science or spirit; it’s both at the same time.”
We’ve entered a new world of Earth observation, in which artificial intelligence helps researchers make sense of an ever-glowing glut of privately gathered data.
The new antenna will boost capacity on NASA’s increasingly strained deep-space communications network as Artemis and other missions drive up demand.
Astronomers have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect hydrogen gas located billions of light-years away, from a period when the cosmos was billions of years younger.
Scientists are close to understanding how stars forge the elements that comprise our planet, bodies and pretty much everything else around us, and how they explode to distribute these elements.
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spectacular ‘super bubble’ in our Milky Way’s nearest neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud. Check out our space photo of the day.
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a “fossil record” dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, revealing the role magnetism played in the birth of the solar system.
A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy solar system bodies.
After an 8-year trek to Mercury, BepiColombo will finally split into two spacecraft ready to track down the secrets of the least-explored planet in the inner solar system.
Comet McNaught brightened dramatically during two outbursts around perihelion as it made a close approach to the sun.