Latest articles by Jesse Emspak
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has found the moon crater created by the impact of the Apollo 16 mission's S-IVB rocket stage back in April 1972, NASA officials announced last month.
The "Star Wars" universe was introduced to the world in 1977, and it remains as popular as ever. What is it about this fictional universe that has enraptured so many people for so many years?
Photos taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show the changing faces of Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, over the course of a full day, which lasts 6.4 Earth days on both faraway worlds.
Researchers transformed flickering in the light emissions of galactic nuclei, black holes, superdense white dwarfs and other objects into sound waves. The result? A lot of white noise.
Why do pulsars, one of the universe's most reliable clocks, occasionally speed up? A new theory suggests there's a perfectly flowing fluid at the heart of this mystery.
A planetarium show at New York City's American Museum of Natural History this month gave audience members a vivid look at the New Horizons spacecraft's epic flyby of Pluto.
Former NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy recently shared her experiences and insights about spaceflight and exploration.
For years, many astronomers thought planets around red dwarfs were probably uninhabitable. But recently, the thinking has begun to change.
Small 'nanoflares' erupting from the sun might be the key to unlocking a cosmic mystery, according to a new study.
Light from a radioactive metal forged inside a supernova blast could prompt a rethink of how some star explosions occur. See the latest discovery from the supernova SN 2014J.
The change in the tilt of the magnetic field of a pulsar, in this case, the one in the famous Crab Nebula, has been observed for the first time.
