Rose Ferreira overcame extreme poverty, homelessness, and health challenges to achieve her dream of working at NASA. Despite facing gender expectation ...

The asteroid 2025 QDB will come to within just over half the distance between Earth and the moon, and you can watch its progress live online.

It’s been over three full years since Nasa’s Webb Space Telescope began "unfolding the universe" as the space agency promised with stellar images and spectroscopy of other worlds. In July, NASA, the ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

Rethinking the shape of space telescopes may be the answer to the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing missions to detect alien life.

Advanced telescopes are engineering marvels. Think of Hubble, JWST, the Very Large Telescope, or the shiny new one, the Vera Rubin Observatory. Magnificent instruments. Still, every human invention ...

The Keystone of Terror Investigation is a midgame main quest in Hell Is Us that sends the player on a journey to find the ...

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." ...

September is the Autumnal Equinox — the beginning of fall — in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s a look at “What’s up in the sky” in the D.C. region this month.

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) detected significant nickel vapor but almost no iron in the interstellar 3I/Atlas comet.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...