A failed star known as "The Accident" is changing the way we look at the galaxy
The newly discovered brown dwarf is the first of its kind
Meet Nancy Grace Roman, the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope
She discovered fundamental truths about stars and galaxies, and also shaped NASA into what we know it as today
Meet Evelyn Boyd Granville, the mathematician who mass produced computers and shot Apollo into space
One of the first Black women to earn a PhD in math, she worked on seemingly every major math project of the 20th century
A map of Mars's ancient rivers unlocks new possibilities for learning about the Red Planet
The same tools scientists use to understand Earth's climate history may work on Mars, too
Let's go to Venus!
NASA's new DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions will explore Venus
The Last Stargazer takes an intimate view of the world through telescopes
Emily Levesque's portrait of "delightful isolation" is astronomer-approved
How a scientist in a potato field founded the field of radio astronomy
Karl Guthe Jansky, hired to quiet hiss on long-distance phone calls, found radio waves coming from Sagittarius
The first ever image of a black hole's swirling magnetic field is released
The Event Horizon Telescope has taken a new image of black hole M87, revealing its magnetic field
How dark is outer space? The New Horizons spacecraft is helping astronomers find out
Measurements from beyond Pluto shed light on the "fossil record" of our universe
The supposedly oldest impact crater on Earth isn't a crater after all
A history-rewriting discovery in Greenland in 2012 has been debunked
NASA's Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars
NASA's latest Mars rover and its partner helicopter Ingenuity have touched down safely
Astronomers are turning orbits and planetary rings into mournful, loud music
Modern astronomers are picking up where Kepler left off. In Mars's winds and Saturn's rings, they find music
What you need to know about this year’s winter solstice and the great conjunction
This cosmic phenomenon is a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who figured out what the universe is made of
Stifled by sexism in Europe, she made foundational discoveries in astronomy after coming to the US
Meet Annie Jump Cannon, who cataloged and ranked over 300,000 stars by their hotness
A century later, her system is still used today
Meet Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astrophysicist who first noticed pulsars
Through sheer tenacity she has forged a career in a male-dominated field
The Moon's origins may be far different than we thought
We're still learning the basics about Earth's nearest neighbor
Meet Vera Rubin, the stargazer who predicted dark matter
From childhood, she preferred 'to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep'