Outer Space

Inspired by chemistry observed on the surface of Venus, researchers produced a synthetic material that could improve air quality.

Jupiter's moon Io is thought to be inhospitable, but new data suggests life could exist underground, perhaps in lava tubes.

NASA has announced that it is developing the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a new space telescope optimized to hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Muons only live for 2.2 microseconds before decaying. Thanks to Einstein's relativity, they make it to the surface of the earth. Here's how to prove it.

Though it makes up about 26% of the Universe, we cannot see dark matter. But we know it's there because we can see its effects.

Can an astrophysicist get ChatGPT to learn and assimilate new information and give correct answers where it gave confident but false ones?

After decades of wondering how ring galaxies form, we've caught them in enough stages of evolution that we finally know where they come from.

University of Rochester researchers think they have a solution to creating an asteroid city: a giant bag.

On Nov. 29, 2022, the Shenzhou 15 mission launched from China’s Gobi Desert carrying three taikonauts – the Chinese word for astronauts.

Scientists have pushed the Milky Way's early history back more than 2 billion years: to less than 800 million years after the Big Bang.