After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

The Seven Sisters Eclipse occurs when the moon in its waning crescent phase moves across the Pleiades and blocks the stars from view. The event is not rare and has taken place every month since ...

The recent United States government's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that was recently signed into law has good news for the ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Two meteor showers, the Perseids and the delta Aquariids, begin this week with peak viewing in late July and August.

I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant herbivore one of the most recognizable dinosaurs to me as a kid. But for ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...