A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After renovation of the building, the artifact is once more on view in a new gallery ...

For most of scientific history, chemical elements were identified through materials that could be handled, heated, weighed or examined in a laboratory. Helium followed a very different path.

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...

Could Martian mudstones be holding evidence of ancient microbes? New findings strengthen the case that the Red Planet once ...

A new high-tech spectrometer is helping Ohio University researchers see the unseen. By revealing molecular structures with ...

The first galaxies were already busy by the time the universe was 700 to 800 million years old. Stars were forming fast.

A lost Philadelphia observatory once used to track the transit of Venus may be the place where the Declaration of Independence was read publicly for the first time.

Astronomers may be closing in on a long-standing cosmic mystery: why some of the universe’s biggest galaxies seem to have far ...

JWST and radio interferometry caught six massive galaxies colliding 12 billion years ago, while a young supermassive black ...

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Rosalind Franklin Mars rover received its first braking engines from NASA following ESA’s 347th Council meeting, advancing the mission toward a late-2028 launch. The throttleable descent engines will ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a breakthrough by detecting methane gas on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for the first time. The discovery suggests the comet formed in a very different ...