Launching humans into space is an inherently risky practice. To prepare astronauts for the microgravity environment of space, ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

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 universe is ready for its close-up. Breathtaking images of thousands of galaxies taken by a 609-megapixel camera have been released this morning by space officials. The images were taken by Euclid ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

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

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.