Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense giant Lockheed Martin announced Nov. 19 that its new mid-size satellite platform will make its orbital debut next year aboard a Firefly Aerospace rocket.

What can young exoplanets teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

A planet has been found orbiting a three-million-year-old star. Better still, it transits across the star’s face from our ...

SpaceX's Flight 6 Starship test flight should last just over an hour, based on its current 65-minute flight plan. It is expected to fly on a similar trajectory to Flight 5, which launched a Starship ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they ...

China's rapid advancement in space technology and the military integration of these capabilities marks a pivotal shift in ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Samantha Harvey about her new book Orbital, which examines the fascinating mundane-ness of outer space from the perspective of an international space station.

Before Tuesday night, the author Samantha Harvey had got used to thinking of herself as a bit of an underdog. “It’s not out ...

Space sustainability is attracting far more attention than in previous decades. “Historically, just getting people to think about it has been a problem,” said Marlon Sorge, executive director of ...