Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and Director of the Johnson Space Center, about NASA's spaceflight tragedies.

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

We live in a dark, dark, world. The post Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter appeared ...

The big astronomical event in February is a rare “planetary parade,” according to NASA. You’ll be able to see Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter shortly after sunset on Feb. 28, ...

The month of February gets under way with the full “Snow” Moon visiting the Beehive star cluster.

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, ...

The first humans stepped on the moon in 1972, and since then, no one has back. Now, NASA is taking the steps to get back to ...

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, WOH G64 is a red supergiant and one of the most luminous, dust-enshrouded stars in its ...

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...