7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

The Apollo 11 lunar lander and other moon missions left behind some weird stuff, including cannons,…

Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts…

Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

Jodrell Bank Observatory, a world-leading centre for radio astronomy in the UK, has been added to…

Asteroid 2019 NN3 to flyby Earth at 0.83 lunar distances on July 10 – the largest since the start of the year

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 NN3 will flyby Earth at a distance of 0.83 LD…

Museum starts 'live' restoration of Rembrandt masterpiece

Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum on Monday began a historic restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”, erecting a…

Robots, Not Humans, Are The New Space Explorers

Landing a man on the moon captures the public’s imagination. But in the decades after the…

X-ray serendipity

The purple lines and blotches scattered across this image show something incredible: all of the X-ray sources…

Asteroid 2019 MB4 to flyby Earth at 0.82 lunar distances on July 9

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 MB4 will flyby Earth at 0.82 LD / 0.00211 AU…

Is that news really 'fake,' or is it just biased?

In an era of concern over “fake news,” a new study finds that people draw a…

Snow algae thrive in high-elevation ice spires, an unlikely oasis for life

High in the Andes Mountains, dagger-shaped ice spires house thriving microbial communities, offering an oasis for…