They're called Population III stars. For decades, they existed only in equations and simulations — theoretical objects from the universe's infancy that no telescope had ever...
For the first time in more than half a century, NASA has fresh, high-resolution photographs from the far side of the Moon. Not orbital snapshots taken from hundreds of miles...
For decades, the trade was simple. Buy American. U.S. Treasuries were the world's safest asset. The dollar was king. American equities outperformed everything else, year afte...
After years of delays, budget overruns, and political whiplash, NASA's Artemis program has reached an odd inflection point. The Space Launch System rocket works. The Orion ca...
Jared Isaacman has been NASA's administrator for barely four months. Already, he's making statements that would have been unthinkable from the agency's leadership a generatio...
Half a century after the last Apollo astronaut kicked up lunar dust, NASA is going back to the Moon. Not for flags and footprints this time. The Artemis program — delayed, ov...
Four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II spacecraft did something last week that no human had done in more than half a century. They looked back at Earth from beyond low orbi...
An iPhone just photographed Earth from lunar orbit. Not a satellite. Not a purpose-built space camera hardened against cosmic radiation and vacuum. A smartphone — specificall...
Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, roughly 2,000 light-years from Earth, a dead star sits in quiet defiance of decades of astrophysical theory. It wei...
China has tightened its grip on the world's rare earth supply. Again.This time, the stakes feel different. Beijing's latest round of export controls on critical minera...
The idea sounds like something from a science fiction pitch meeting that went off the rails. Racks of servers floating in low Earth orbit, cooled by the vacuum of space, powe...
Four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft just took iPhone photos from space. Not as a novelty. As a NASA experiment.The Artemis II crew — Commander Reid Wiseman, Pi...
Somewhere in a cluster of galaxies roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, something violent happened about eight billion years ago. Two galaxies collided. Not a gentle gr...
Four astronauts are about to do something no human has done since December 1972. They're going to leave low Earth orbit, swing around the Moon, and come home. But unlike the...