In 2026, as the world watches for a return to the moon, decisive climate action, and shifting global politics, it will also revel in the thrill of the World Cup in North America.

Political and moral communities are partly defined by what opinions are deemed to be so vile as to be outside of ...

There are several frozen moons in our solar system, orbiting the gas giants. Some of them, despite having temperatures that would make Antarctica feel tropical, have liquid water under the surface.

A new study published Nov. 24 in Nature Astronomy sheds light on what could be going on beneath the surface of these worlds ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this photo of southern Europe and the northwestern ...

The 60s sparked huge cultural shifts that still influence our lives today. Here are eight defining moments from that ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Indigenous earthworks once dotted a large section of North America. The National Park Service preserves and interprets some ...

DARPA’s TBD2 program aims to track tiny spacecraft across deep space, creating the first wide-area surveillance of the ...

​The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has been getting a lot of attention online, especially as it moves closer to the inner Solar System before Christmas. Many people have shared worries, questions, and ...