When it comes to locating objects in the night sky, how does one convey its precise position? The sky is divided into a scattered pattern of 88 constellations of various sizes and shapes covering ...

After centuries of perplexing scientists with its wildly erratic behaviour, a nearby star may give up some of its secrets in the next couple of weeks. A binary system, η Carinae has two stars that ...

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $26,889,866 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Ocelot Software/Hardware Prototype. This contract provides for a ...

With 2025 nearly in the books, let’s revisit some of the highlights of the year in space, from astronomy to spaceflight. During a first-light event in June, scientists revealed the product of just 10 ...

While our Sun serves as the central star for our solar system, there are numerous other stars within our cosmic neighborhood that may not be widely known. Despite being billions of light-years away, ...

Aerial view of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, ChileJ. L. Dauvergne & G. Hüdepohl, atacamaphoto.com/ESO The search for ...

With 2025 nearly in the books, let’s revisit some of the highlights of the year in space, from astronomy to spaceflight. Sign up for Today in Science, a free daily newsletter from Scientific American ...