The splendors of the universe glowed in new images released this week from NASA’s powerful new telescope: the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s sheer power, distant location from Earth ...
Only 5% of the universe is made up of matter that we can see. The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission is probing the rest of what’s out there—what scientists call dark matter, which holds the ...
With 2025 nearly in the books, let’s revisit some of the highlights of the year in space, from astronomy to spaceflight. Sign up for Today in Science, a free daily newsletter from Scientific American ...
Years before Earth's photo shoot last week from Saturn and Mercury, our planet was the darling of earlier space probes. Images from Voyager 1 (1977, 1990), Galileo (1992), an earlier Mercury MESSENGER ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon crash back on Earth. The Cosmos 482 ...