Overview: Shubhanshu Shukla’s ISS mission marks a new era of Indian space leadership.His achievement strengthens India’s space economy vision, inspiring tech in ...

As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had discovered aliens. They were, however, concerned about the possibility that ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

The comet's green glow is caused by fluorescence of diatomic carbon (C2) when exposed to ultraviolet sunlight, not reflection.

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Scientists detect Alfvén waves twisting in the Sun’s corona Waves may explain the corona’s million-degree heat Observation ...