The planned lunar Gateway space station will be just one-sixth the size of the ISS and feature an upsettingly tiny habitation module.

Architects designing the living space for the upcoming lunar Gateway did their best to make it comfortable for astronauts, but...

Signals found in archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts indicate the brief existence of a supersized neutron star before it collapsed into a black hole.

Astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia have spotted two black holes have been 'dining' side-by-side.

A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to 'green peas,' a rare class of small galaxies in our cosmic backyard.

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Androm…

In the quest to find the outer limits of our galaxy, astronomers have discovered over 200 stars that form the Milky Way’s edge, the most distant of which is ...

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If you lift your eyes to the sky Friday night, you can catch the first full moon of 2023—the wolf moon.

The massive X1.9-class solar storm is the second huge flare in 4 days from the sunspot AR3184.

The International Space Station has hosted astronauts living and working in space for more than two decades, making groundbreaking contributions to technology and medicine along the way.

The Artemis 1 demonstration mission ended with a Pacific Ocean splash on December 11, but the task of evaluating the returned capsule, including its heat...

Engineers have begun the painstaking process of inspecting the Artemis 1 capsule to see how it fared during its lunar journey and atmospheric reentry.

The Artemis 1 demonstration mission ended with a Pacific Ocean splash on December 11, but the task of evaluating the...

Researchers performed a genomic assessment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant’s BA.1 subvariant transmission in England.

Mosquitoes spread several diseases, among them malaria and dengue virus. In 2020, about 241 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, with a few more million cases occurring in 2021. Nearly half the world's population lives in regions where contracting den…

Apple will announce a new mixed-reality headset in the coming months with plans to sell the product to consumers by fall 2023, according to a new report.

The Orion space capsule from Artemis I has come full circle, having launched from Kennedy Space Center, traveled 1.4 million miles in space and around the moon, splashed back down to Earth in the Pacific Ocean, and now journeyed 2,500 miles over land for its …

SpaceX has assembled Falcon Heavy and rolled the rocket out to the launch pad for its first mission of 2023. This particular Falcon Heavy – the fifth overall – is reusing both of the side boosters recovered from the rocket’s fourth launch. Originally schedule…

China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) has been hoping to reestablish communications with the Zhurong Mars rover, but so far, their efforts have been unsuccessful. Zhurong was put into hibernation over six months ago as it hunkered down in attempts to s…

Climate change will reshape ecosystems through two types of events: short-term, extreme events — or “pulses” — and long-term changes, or “presses.” Understanding the effects of presses and...

If and when we ever get an asteroid mining industry off the ground, one of the most important decisions to be made in the structure of any asteroid mining mission would be how to get the resources back to where all of our other infrastructure is—somewhere aro…

China’s Zhurong rover went into hibernation mode in May 2022 to avoid the harsh winter season on Mars, but communication...

China's inaugural Mars mission was scheduled to resume after a precautionary winter pause, but controllers can't seem to make contact with the rover or orbiter.

The poles have ice but it's freezing up there, so why not grind gems for cocktails?