Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

ESA's Proba-2 satellite captured a stunning 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse from orbit — a view few on Earth could see.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

See how Orion spacecraft from NASA's Artemis 1 mission enters Earth's atmosphere after its successful mission around the moon. Footage shows 25 minutes of re-entry and parachute footage time-lapsed to ...

We examine why the Earth's constant spin goes completely unnoticed by the people living on it. We think about it and then ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur — a key ingredient for life — ever identified in interstellar space. The researchers call the discovery a “missing link” in ...

What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. It’s currently being manned by Jeremy Freed, watch writer extraordinaire, while Cam is on ...

The powerful Vulcan faces its biggest test yet as it prepares to launch on its second national security mission from Florida.