outer space

Conventional wisdom tells us that large objects appear smaller as they get farther from us, but this fundamental …

A NASA team uses supercomputing to evaluate a retropropulsion-powered descent to the Martian surface for a Mars landing.  …

Gravitational-wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that could help astronomers track down …

How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over …

When small, dense stars called white dwarfs explode, they produce bright, short-lived flares called Type Ia supernovae. These …

Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by “tuning in” to the …

A determined bunch of scientists set out to map the Moon in preparation for the Apollo landings, but …

Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise slam into Earth. Now, they’re …

NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary …

Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer on the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: …