NASA is inviting middle school students and the public to contribute to Artemis mission science through citizen projects, from tracking lunar impacts to testing crops for space. The initiatives aim to ...

A new paper from NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of ...

"Lava planets are in such extreme orbital configurations that our knowledge of rocky planets in the solar system does not directly apply." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The federal government spends a lot of money on scientific research and projects, but even so, it can’t do everything without a little ...

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...