Why would a young Sun-like star suddenly belch out a hugely bright flare? That's what astronomers at Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical…
The future of space exploration includes some rather ambitious plans to send missions farther from Earth than ever before. Beyond…
For a long time, our understanding of the Universe's first galaxies leaned heavily on theory. The light from that age…
Astronomers have used two X-ray telescopes to study a neutron star and have discovered a link between it and mysterious…
There's a problem with the Perseverance rover. One of its instruments, the laser-shooting SHERLOC, which is mounted on the end…
Now it’s Intuitive Machines’ turn to try making history with a robotic moon landing. Today’s launch of the Houston-based company’s Odysseus lander marks the…
Through the Artemis Program, NASA intends to send astronauts back to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo…
Planets orbit stars. That's axiomatic. Or at least it was until astronomers started finding rogue planets, also called free-floating planets…
We're light-years away from the closest stars, but in the billions of years of history in the Milky Way, our…
A recent study published in Nature presents a groundbreaking discovery that Saturn’s moon, Mimas, commonly known as the “Death Star”…