NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of performing an all-sky survey. The data it collects ...

"This confirms that life's building blocks can be formed in a diversity of environments throughout the universe." ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

These changes aren’t permanent – the brain goes gradually back to normal after coming back to Earth. Understanding the ...

Young people of Trinity School, Carlisle have been inspired by the story of Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman, as she visited the school last week.

Dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places, like faraway galaxies and underground detectors.

The infrared space telescope also detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds streaming from the departing ...

Who owns space? At the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Ariel Ekblaw discussed the geopolitics of space. While nations may compete over resources, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty still prevents any ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and its unusual gas-to-dust chemistry Crewed and robotic lunar missions advancing sustained exploration Asteroid characterization and deflection studies supporting ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...