SpaceX stunned onlookers when it returned a Super Heavy booster to a precise landing at its launchpad. But the resulting ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity? Antoine ...

“You can’t necessarily use the ages recorded by rocks to tell when the Moon formed,” explains Francis Nimmo, planetary ...

Astronomy students at the University of Manitoba now have a celestial boon at their fingertips. A new $500,000 observatory ...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Five years old and three feet tall, the wide-eyed girl was fascinated by the apparatus in front of her. A kindly, older ...

The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...

Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is ...

Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese ...

Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...