Space

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft toward …

Whether or not we’re alone in the universe is one of the biggest questions in science. A recent …

With the most powerful radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered …

NASA will soon launch a new telescope that will create the “most colorful” map of the cosmos ever …

On the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, two very different creatures, wombats and rabbits, …

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle toward Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are …

On December 27 last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving …

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most …

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid …

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and …