Latest articles by Jesse Emspak
A new Neptune study shows that you don't need to be a professional to do science; amateurs make contributions, too.
Country music legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood visited NASA's mission control and sang to the astronauts on the space station.
Astronaut Jack Fischer caught some amazing pictures of SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule leaving the International Space Station today (July 3).
The Curiosity Mars Rover is now smart enough to pick its own targets of exploration, thanks to a new piece of software.
A million years from now humans might adapt to space, and space to humans.
Astronomers have mapped the tangled web woven by the magnetic field of a gas cloud as it births a star. Our own solar system might have looked the same in its earliest days, the researchers said.
NASA will announce the latest crop of planet discoveries from the Kepler Space Telescope during a briefing Monday morning (June 19)
A source of mysterious radio signals could be from a passing comet, but astronomers are skeptical.
A new video shows how the stars in the constellation Orion will move over the next 450,000 years, reshaping the well-known night sky figure.
The vacuum of empty space may be roiling with energy that drives the expansion of space itself, a new hypothesis proposes.
In the year 1 million, humans might still exist — but they won't be like humans today.
With the nights getting warmer, skywatchers will have a fine show tonight (May 10) from the May full moon, known as the Full Flower or Milk Moon.
The futuristic tech of "Alien: Covenant" may be closer than we think: A proposed lunar rover built by privately funded team from Germany will make an appearance in the film.
Giant eruptions of material and smaller jets from the sun's surface are closer cousins than anyone thought.
In this wonky, non-Euclidean universe, the floor can fall away from your feet as you walk forward and distances aren't what they seem.
An Einstein letter shows a generous spirit and a little criticism.
Researchers have cracked a secret of the Milky Way's neighboring Andromeda galaxy: A mysterious x-ray source is likely a pulsar, the rapidly-spinning corpse of a massive star.
Earth and the sun are very different, but their atmospheres share something in common: A type of wave that undulates through Earth's skies may have an analogue in the body of the sun.
