Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in physics. Here’s how scientists successfully mapped the invisible substance in ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...