Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening, ...

From its origins as a self published novel to its close collaboration with NASA, The Martian is a rare blockbuster grounded in real science. This video explores the film’s most interesting facts, its ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took ...

Families of the seven astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger gathered to commemorate the 40th anniversary of ...

Wednesday marked 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger accident that killed seven crew members. The mission was not ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...