For most of human history, planetary systems were a sample size of one. Ours. Then people learned about Mercury, Venus, Mars, ...

As Commander Reid Wiseman and his three crew flew over the dark side of the Moon to what NASA had said would be their maximum distance, their odometer continued ticking upwards.

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to break down the cause of a remarkable formation of radio waves they ...

Two sounding rockets will launch from Poker Flat Research Range as early as this week on separate missions studying some of ...

How do young stars reshape the clouds from which they are born? A new high-resolution 3D model developed by an international ...

Weather maps of distant planets are a step closer after the James Webb Space Telescope distinguished hotter and cooler ...

The University of KwaZulu-Natal is hosting a rather interesting event later this week. Entitled “South Africa in Space: Science, Technology and the Future”, this seminar looks ...

The history of Carnegie’s Observatories reaches back to December 1904, when George Ellery Hale learned that Carnegie would ...

WISE 0855, the coldest brown dwarf known, has patchy water clouds that change thickness as it spins, while gases from deep ...

White dwarf stars, it turns out, come in a variety of hues. Says one astronomer: "Some of them genuinely surprised me." ...

There is one hidden "fourth spatial orientation" in the universe that we don't know about, and its thickness is much thinner ...

John Overdeck is trying to prevent a feud with his wife over his $723 million divorce settlement offer from costing him in a ...