Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will make its closest approach to the sun this April—right after North America is treated to a total solar eclipse

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets

Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission is the first U.S. soft landing on the moon since Apollo 17. It’s also a sign of private industry’s growing role in space

Scientists have finally found the compact object at the heart of the famous supernova of 1987, and it’s not a black hole

Without adding an extra day to February every four years, our calendar would get increasingly out of sync with the cosmos

A lunar lander nicknamed Odie carries 125 small moon sculptures by artist Jeff Koons that could become the first authorized artwork on the moon

Physicists found that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach contains mathematical patterns that help convey information

Despite being some six billion kilometers away, the sun from Pluto would be a dazzling sight to behold—carefully, that is

From the discovery of new elements to the testing of novel theories of gravity, total solar eclipses have helped spark scientific progress for centuries