For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

When the weather turns foul and outdoor adventures are off the table, the spirit of the national parks doesn’t have to vanish ...

Hildene in Manchester, Vermont was the summer home of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln. Robert named the estate ...

To start off the new year this month’s Star Gazing Guide focuses on a constellation that even the armchair astronomer is ...

Stargazing can stimulate an interest in space in kids and lead to a passion for science. But rural schools often lack the ...

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

Gravitational lensing occurs whenever a massive foreground object, distorting and curving the fabric of space where it’s positioned, causes the light from background objects to be bent, magnified, and ...

A pulsar’s gentle twinkle is revealing how space quietly bends and delays the signals we receive from the cosmos.

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Your stargazing experience can differ greatly based on where you are in the world. That's due in part to light pollution, which can drown out all but the brightest stars and satellites in densely ...