In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

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You can observe a lot of things from space.' 'Another thing is communication, in real time, especially in war-like situations.' 'During Operation Sindoor, we could play our part well.' ...

Tough economic times demand a change in mindset and spending habits. For many waterfowlers, that could mean returning to their leadless roots—steel shot.

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able to see another one! Today we know of more than a million asteroids in the ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly, the National Air and Space Museum's signature magazine that explores ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Peter Baker, Sara Fagen, Jeffrey Goldberg, Kimberly Atkins Stohr ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

Masataka Yoshida's seventh-inning single drove in two Red Sox runs, and Alex Bregman added one more in the top of the ninth.