NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon ...

The observatory’s work is far from trivial. It captures gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical data in real time, ...

After all the tests, NASA determined that Artemis II was safe to fly with its current heat shield, but NASA decided to use a ...

A supermoon will hang in the night sky bigger and brighter than usual during its perigee, and a great time to head outside to ...

We’re often the first humans to put eyes on those images. We tell Perseverance to reach out, and grind rocks, take pictures, ...

A long-tailed comet has been spotted close to the sun, and some astronomers are predicting it could be seen with the naked eye in mid-October — just as another comet is forecast to do the same. It ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...