The ice giant Neptune will be at opposition on Tuesday (Sept. 19), meaning it will be in...
Science & Astronomy
STELLA (short for NASA’s Science and Technology Education for Land / Life Assessment) is a handheld, do-it-yourself...
Mt. Edgecumbe rises in the foreground with Crater Ridge behind and to the north on May 19,...
Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to...
Even if you were to theoretically travel to the darkest desert on Earth, wait until after sundown...
When the OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at asteroid Bennu, it found a body that looked and behaved quite...
On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It...
On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn’s “Death Star” moon, Mimas. Of course,...
A new groundbreaking measurement made by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and the Parker Solar probe brings scientists...
A rocket engine that helped power a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is now readying...