The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 ...

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies and astronauts. This debris includes large pieces, such as spent rocket ...

They won't be home for Christmas, but that's okay. They may not be home for Christmas, but astronauts in space are finding ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy Christmas lights to shame, especially when viewed from a dark sky location.

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

Since its release in 2017, the Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon has reigned supreme as the largest and highest piece count ...

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests, new rockets and booster landing attempts, a new deep space mission and even ...

"Hubble has given us a front row seat to the chaotic processes that are shaping disks as they build new planets — processes ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.

The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind ...