I grew up loving space documentaries, so I was genuinely annoyed when I realized how many “facts” I’d absorbed were just ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light ...

So, if you ever happen to read this, thanks for lifting my mood, Katherine May. But sadly, even though the Covid may have receded, darkness is never conquered for good. November is upon us again, and ...

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, shown where it’s installed aboard the International Space Station, recently demonstrated the use of a tool called an atom interferometer that can precisely measure gravity and ...

Imagine sitting in the center of a firework that has just exploded. After the first flash of light and heat, sparks fly off in all directions, with some streaming together into fiery filaments and ...

Doomsday came on May 25 for the payload of a pumpkin-shaped balloon at the edge of space. But things had not gone as planned. Early in the mission, satellite communications failed and the telescope’s ...