In 1974, astronomers sent a call out into the cosmos from a massive telescope in Puerto Rico. The anniversary of the message brings reflections on a new missive to the stars and grief for a lost ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

The father-daughter team of Ken and Keli Chaffin successfully decoded the message in July of 2024 by running simulations of ...

The term “Black Marble” is a counterpart to NASA’s famous Blue Marble images, which show Earth during the daytime.

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with southern cultures such as Italy’s are reversed in his native country, ...

Guillermo Söhnlein and a team of two others is heading to Dean's Blue Hole with his new company Blue Marble Exploration ... chief medical officer and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski.

I assumed it was a very strange kind of cloud." It's not every day you get to watch a rocket launch into a sky glowing with ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

The sky appears blue due to the scattering of sunlight by atmospheric gas molecules. Shorter blue wavelengths scatter more than longer wavelengths like red, making the sky blue. Despite violet ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered a treasure trove of diverse and intriguing rocks while exploring an ancient river channel on Mars, providing scientists with new insights into the Red ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Swatch and Omega have launched yet another MoonSwatch, and this time, the affordable chronograph introduces a brand-new ...