On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when ...

NASA has announced major changes to its Artemis program, revising its first planned landing attempt to take place in low-Earth orbit.

Supermoons, a total solar eclipse and a dramatic blood moon headline a packed calendar of lunar events in 2026.

A House bill that would authorize the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to extend existing astronomical observatory leases and subleases for up to 10 years has advanced despite concerns ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...

A team led by astrophysicist Simon Blouin at the University of Victoria has used one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to ...

In December 2018, a trio of astronomers – Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science, David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, and Chad Trujillo of Northern Arizona University – set the ...

How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and the first female program scientist for the ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible — low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...