NASA lost contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it passed behind the planet. The agency is investigating the cause while reviewing the mission’s role in Mars science and rover communications ...

The launch of a new batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites lit up the predawn sky in southern California today (Dec. 10) as the ...

Low Earth orbit is filling up with industrial-scale fleets of satellites, and the collateral damage is becoming impossible to ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected.

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...