Astronomers have a habit of naming things exactly what they look like, and Green Pea galaxies earned their nickname honestly, small, round, and distinctly...
A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
For seven days in July 1994, astronomers around the world barely slept. Twenty-one pieces of a shattered comet, lined up like beads on a string, were about to slam into Jupiter one after another, and for the first time in recorded history, humanity actually...
Did you know astronauts see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day? This fast pace messes with their natural sleep cycle. Without gravity, sleeping becomes a challenge that needs smart solutions.
In space, your body doesn't feel the mattress like on Earth. This makes it hard...
On September 15, 2017, mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory watched a signal go quiet, one they had deliberately sent a spacecraft to lose. Cassini wasn't broken. It wasn't malfunctioning. Every instrument still worked. Engineers destroyed it anyway, steering it straight into Saturn's...