A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

The research team experimented with using two LLMs to power AstroAgents — Claude Sonnet 3.5and Gemini 2.0 Flash. They fed ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Team X is suggesting major changes to the proposed Orbilander mission to Enceladus.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.