As the total solar eclipse becomes visible when it streaks past North America, 'citizen scientists' are at work, beaming radio signals to support scientific experiments.
Astronomers have identified the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks, “Shakti” and “Shiva”, the remnants of two galaxies that merged between 12 and 13 billion years ago...
The latest launch saw the Starship rocket travel the farthest it has ever gone, streaking for 50 minutes through the vast layers of the atmosphere before...
Shorter than Olympus Mons, but taller than Everest, has the Noctis volcano hiding in plain sight close to the Martian equator. Planetary scientists now wonder if...
In 1978, Donald J. Kessler, an astrophysicist, predicted collisions between satellites can get out of hand as their population keeps increasing.
NASA’s planned orbiter exploring Jupiter’s moon, Europa, will carry a metal plate representing messages from earth.
"Early movers in the sector, like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, need to watch themselves and their passengers," says a space law expert. "The principles of...
A dwarf galaxy appears to have halted star formation. An astrophysicist believes current 'models based on the universe' need to be 'revisited'.
As we enter a new space age scripting history, we may be yet to come to grasps with the politics of space.
Massive stars in the Orion nebula exert intense radiation pressures to drive gas out from a young star system still forming planets.
