Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, ...

A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

On a mountaintop in Chile's sprawling Atacama Desert, a new telescope has turned its mechanical eyes to the heavens, stargazing with unprecedented intensity. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will take ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

HOUSTON—A new research analysis of a sample of Mars gathered by NASA’s Curiosity rover and initially studied by onboard instrumentation has determined that non-biological sources once considered ...

Using an advanced machine-learning algorithm, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified several promising candidate locations for the long-lost landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft.

It’s World Space Week, and we’re fueling up the rocket for a tour of some missions and projects that could provide insights into major space mysteries. Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi joins Host Flora ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might have solved a decades-old mystery regarding how the Moon lost its magnetic field with a recent study published in ...

The show boldly resolves a long-standing Deep Space Nine ...