Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

ChatGPT could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers ...

Astronomers and space scientists are living in a state of fear and anxiety as the Trump administration and Elon Musk-led U.S. DOGE Service target science spending and diversity initiatives with ...

For a planetary scientist, Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University has what is perhaps a particularly eclectic resume. She has worked in business, raised sheep and border collies, and ...

Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge. The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity could lead to more accidents in space missions, experts say.

Inspired by the Space Race between the USSR and the USA in the 1950s and ’60s, scientists of color around the world have contributed to creating space programs for their home countries.

Astronomers and space scientists are living in a state of fear and anxiety as the Trump administration and Elon Musk-led U.S.