NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a ...

Several issues conspired to bring Athena down, including tough lighting conditions near the moon's south pole.

A moment’s gaze into the skies through a telescope’s eyepiece might create a new astronomy buff. The opportunity awaits visitors, young and old, to a special “stargaze” Friday night at Rose-Hulman’s ...

SpaceX ignited all six of the 171-foot-tall (52-meter-tall) vehicle's Raptor engines during the trial, which lasted about 60 seconds.

The MAC/VAL in Val-de-Marne is taking part in Nuit des Musées 2025! Join us on Saturday, May 17, 2025, for the 21st edition ...

Set to launch in just two years, Roman is poised to transform our understanding of exoplanets and the structure of the universe. Like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), it can detect both ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the mass of the Sun or lower. The spring night sky, however, offers us ...

They consider several molecules that are relatively easy to detect in exoplanet atmospheres, including oxygen, methane, nitrous oxide, and phosphine. Taken individually, each of these molecules ...

If advanced alien civilisations are building vast satellite swarms designed to harvest a star’s energy, we should be able to see them – so why haven’t we? One answer might be that these ...

By Zachary Small and Tim F. Schneider The spring sales of modern and contemporary art often arrive in May with a steady drumroll of paintings whose estimates soar above $50 million — a sign of ...