Space

Every telescope before it was built to look around. Kepler was built to stare. Launched in March 2009…

The planet Jupiter hosts more than 100 moons with the majority of attention going to the four Galilean…

We are on the hunt for another small, northern summer constellation this week: Sagitta, the arrow. Although it…

Twenty years ago, Pluto got demoted. After a vote by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in August 2006,…

When a meteoroid hits the Moon’s surface, it does more than just dig up a little dirt. It…

At least once in our lives, we’ve all seen a bright streak of light briefly blaze across the…

The group of five galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet are also called the Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG…

Space shuttle Endeavour had crossed the United States on top of a modified Boeing 747. The last 12…

In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of…

Nancy Grace Roman telescope launches to ‘kick the door down to the universe’ The Times ‘A giant leap forward’:…

Kepler stared at the same 150,000 stars in Cygnus for four years without looking away, watching for the tiny dimming of a planet crossing in front of them, and the four years of staring turned up more than 2,600 confirmed worlds