As we move into 2025, I find myself reflecting on the past. Carl Sagan and the Voyager 1 team redirected the spacecraft back toward Earth for one final photograph before shutting off the camera ( ...

Often when we think of space exploration, specifically the technology that goes into space exploration, we assume that what we’re sending up there are the best and most capable computers and ...

The most remarkable space mission in human history is the subject of the latest experience at Emporia State University's ...

Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...

With 2024 now officially in the history books, it’s time to take our traditional look back and reflect on some of the top ...

The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President Jimmy Carter shared a fundamental understanding about the fragility ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

Star Trek: Voyager premiered when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was almost halfway through its third season. A darker version of ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, ...