The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth's moon for the first time ever. Known as "Project Diana ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography ...

Chinese researchers have braved the cold and harsh environment of Antarctica in order to get a unique view of star formation ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most distant star ever observed, with light dating back nearly to the beginning ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

The NC Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, featuring moon-themed activities and Artemis 2 mission details.

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as ...