A viral video of NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn cursing gravity as he tries to place a pen mid-air was actually a parody. But ...

Astronomers have identified a mysterious deep-space object that appears to defy current scientific understanding, prompting renewed debate about how the universe forms and evolves over time. The ...

As humanity heads back to the moon, scientists are trying to understand the impact that being in space can have on the brain.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object Arjuna 2025 PN7, named for the Arjuna asteroid belt, was detected by the Pan-STARRS survey as far back as 2014, but it was so faint that it ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

On Earth, people grip objects to ensure they don't fall. In space, this process changes: When astronauts hold an object ...

An interstellar visitor to our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS has captivated the public for months, and it's not hard to see why. But for scientists around the world, the discovery that 3I/ATLAS is ...

An astronaut can hold a tool in space, loosen their fingers, and watch it stay put. Nothing drops. Nothing tugs downward. Yet ...

Light travels at a whopping 299,792 kilometers per second. It zips from Earth to the Moon in a heartbeat, clears the orbit of ...

Space agencies around the globe have launched an unprecedented wave of planetary defense exercises, all centered on a mysterious interstellar visitor that refuses to behave like anything scientists ...

This project is focused on leveraging modeling and simulation of non-resolved space object signatures utilizing the DIRSIG software model to better understand spectral signature phenomenology. The non ...