Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward, causing the universe to balloon faster...
NASA follows international guidelines called the Planetary Protection protocol, aimed at making sure Earth’s biology doesn’t taint celestial bodies, and vice versa. The agency also has...
Our universe might be chock-full of cosmic wonder, but you can observe only a fraction of astronomical phenomena with the naked eye. Meteor showers, natural fireworks...
Between all the monitors, wires and keyboards are the normal trappings of a workplace: lunchboxes, water bottles, backpacks and smartphones. A Snoopy astronaut from the Apollo...
New shades of brown and green in the rings of impact craters. Rugged terrain and long shadows along their rims. Earth rising over the moon’s horizon...
An animated 3-D model of the moon, shown on a black background. A 3-D model of the moon with the near side in view. It reads:...
NASA is set to send four astronauts — three from the United States and one from Canada — on a trip around the moon and back...
Whether you care about horoscopes or not, you probably know your zodiac sign. You’ve probably known it for most of your life. Zodiac signs were originally...
China’s two biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, records show, a measure of how far they are falling behind Elon...
At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is the world’s largest digital camera. About the size of a small car, it...