Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old site in southern Turkey (potentially older in parts), predates known agricultural societies and displays complex megalithic structures, challenging existing theories ...

The First Quarter Moon is scheduled for October 28 at 12:21 P.M. EDT, presenting its terminator halfway across the visible lunar disk. During this lunar phase, observers can distinguish maria and ...

Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...

October's evening sky features prominently visible Venus (-3.9 magnitude) and less visible Mercury (-0.4 magnitude), with Mercury's visibility challenged by its low altitude near the western horizon.

UPDATE 8/28/24: After pushing back the initial launch from Tuesday to Wednesday this week to check a helium leak in the launch system, SpaceX once again delayed Polaris Dawn’s launch, citing poor ...

Star formation begins with protostars in cold molecular clouds, where gravitational contraction precedes nuclear fusion, and their early evolutionary stages are best characterized through ...

After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft is transmitting back to its ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) unexpectedly continued to brighten past its predicted peak on October 21, achieving an estimated 4th magnitude. Despite its brightness, increasing lunar illumination ...

China is preparing for the Shenzhou-21 crewed mission, targeting the Tiangong space station. The mission's launch, utilizing a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, is ...

(Editor’s note: The author of this article is one of the authors of a new paper on Planet Nine, which you can read here. It has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.) In ...

On October 27th, Jupiter will be observable south of Pollux in Gemini at magnitude –2.2, with East Coast observers having the opportunity to witness an occultation of its moon Io between approximately ...

Scientists are using observations of black holes to test the limits of general relativity, aiming to identify potential inconsistencies or incompleteness in Einstein's theory. Multiple methods are ...