I nterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers (168 ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s finally getting chilly outside for most of us, which means there’s no better time to curl up ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - In the world of pro sports, where loyalty is increasingly rare, José Ramírez stands as an anomaly. The Guardians’ star third baseman has maintained his commitment to the organization ...

As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The first detection of Pluto in X-rays has been made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in conjunction with ...