The Red Planet reaches its best position all year this week on January 15. Here’s how and when to get out and see it.

When the International Space Station is decommissioned and plummets into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, Earth will be vulnerable ...

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star made of mysterious "fuzzy" matter.

Residents within a 1-mile radius of the Mustang Gas Plant in Hennessey were evacuated Sunday morning, Jan. 12, 2025, after ...

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

When NASA’s unmanned lunar lander launches from Florida next week, it will carry with it a radiation-tolerant computer developed at Montana State University. The computer was created by MSU faculty ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the ...

The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of doorways and transitions won out. By Remy ...

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Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of ... and space-craft-borne instruments of the electromagnetic radiation and high-energy particles emitted by celestial bodies. Molecular clouds with ...