New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

The Euclid space telescope has dropped its first data and deep field observations showing millions of galaxies in great detail as it hunts for dark matter and dark energy clues.

Twenty-one students from the region placed at the 2025 West Virginia Science and Engineering Fair sponsored by the West ...

When astronauts return from a prolonged visit to space, they are often carried out of their capsules and placed on stretchers ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy.

SpaceX delivered a four-person crew to the International Space Station early Sunday, setting the stage for Barry Wilmore and ...