The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

But a separate recent result reinforces it. By Katrina Miller and Dennis Overbye The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in ...

SpaceX delivered a four-person crew to the International Space Station early Sunday, setting the stage for Barry Wilmore and ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Affected agencies include the National Science Foundation and NASA, which underwrite nearly all of U.S. astronomy. NASA has removed from its websites a variety of public data, including grant ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy.