Scientists have uncovered a massive rotating structure in deep space, a 50-million-light-year cosmic filament where 14 ...

Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

A visit to an asteroid is revealing the origins of life in our solar system. In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx mission brough samples ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

Since its founding in 1894, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has been a beacon of astronomical discovery, its scientists famously identifying Pluto and revealing the expanding universe. Now, Lowell ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

Researchers in Peru uncovered an ancient structure older than the Chankillo Solar Observatory, reshaping views on early ...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrated the grand opening of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC), a 40,000-square-foot facility featuring interactive exhibits, a ...

Introduction: the natural history of the heavens and the natural history of discovery -- Part I. Entrée: 1. The Pluto affair -- Part II. Narratives of Discovery: 2. Moons, rings, and asteroids: ...