This lunation comes on the heels of the sun moving into Gemini — the sign of forked tongues and shape-shifting — and on the ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

The problem is that our Earth is too noisy ... to industrialize and inhabit the Moon, the noble goal of pursuing a better understanding of the Universe makes for a fine motivation.

As telescopes gaze into space, they also peer back in time. Starlight takes years—sometimes billions—to reach Earth, letting ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time.’ However, ...

Around 13.8 billion years ago, a tiny but dense fireball gave birth to the vast cosmos that holds trillions of galaxies, including the Milky Way. But our universe is dying, and it’s happening at a ...

Dense cosmic objects like neutron stars and white dwarfs may decay faster than previously thought, challenging predictions.

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

Flower Mound, Texas, was named one of the best places to live in the U.S. The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists.