The solar-powered Blue Ghost shut down on Sunday evening (March 16), shortly after the sun set over its lunar locale. The ...

My god, it's full of stars. Astronaut and astrophotographer Don Pettit captured this deeply trippy image from the ...

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

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

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, according to a new study.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

So much time has elapsed since these vast death events, we may never know their cause exactly, but this work indicates it isn ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third ...

Some people think that you have to choose between science and religion, but that is not the case. This is the story ...