The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
Wednesday, February 5 First Quarter Moon occurs at 3:02 A.M. EST. Nearly half a day later, the Moon passes 5° north of Uranus ...
Headliners including Jane Goodall, Brian May, Pablo Álvarez, Glenn Hughes, Jorge Drexler, and many more will celebrate ...
Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of years, slowly fading away as a dark, solid carbon-oxygen ball.
In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You’ll see four of the five planets visible without optical aid. Venus and Saturn are in the ...
JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.
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Future moonwalkers will need to take advantage of new spacesuit designs, including updated footwear, to accomplish their tasks.