Radio waves from this blazar traveled more than 12.9 billion light-years to reach us, which is a new record for this type of cosmic object. The shining behemoth's remarkable age could enable ...

Frank White, author and space philosopher, created the term "The Overview Effect" to describe this cognitive shift that astronauts experience when they see Earth from space.

The closest black hole to Earth is Gaia-BH1 (also discovered by Gaia), which is 1,560 light-years away. Gaia-BH1 has a mass around 9.6 times that of the sun, making it considerably smaller than ...

The American Geophysical Union has elected its first black President. AGU is one of the largest science organizations in the world. As we close out Black History Month, Dr. Brandon Jones is ...

Reports that the White House may propose nearly a 50% cut to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate are both mind-boggling and, if true, nothing short of disastrous. To make those cuts happen — a ...

Space Camp is a new series about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe by NPR's science podcast Short Wave. Check out the rest of the series.

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Florida around 5:57 ...

The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars in ...

For the study, the researchers used a series of computer models for Earth and Earth-like planets with a variety of atmospheric compositions to ascertain how much AGN UV radiation could influence the ...

Bridging the gap between research in space and patients on Earth is at the core of all of UCSF’s space health research, says UCSF physician-researcher Aenor Sawyer, MD, director and co-founder of UC ...