Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

CAPE TOWN, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- South African researchers have discovered the most distant ultra-steep-spectrum radio halo ever observed.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

Astronomers link an X-ray nebula to a pulsar-powered PeVatron, offering major clues to the origins of galactic cosmic rays.

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

Since its founding in 1894, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has been a beacon of astronomical discovery, its scientists famously identifying Pluto and revealing the expanding universe. Now, Lowell ...

Researchers in Peru uncovered an ancient structure older than the Chankillo Solar Observatory, reshaping views on early ...

Introduction: the natural history of the heavens and the natural history of discovery -- Part I. Entrée: 1. The Pluto affair -- Part II. Narratives of Discovery: 2. Moons, rings, and asteroids: ...