If you're looking for a change of scenery, join the American Museum of Natural History on May 8 to explore the surface of Mars without leaving home.

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While your parents were snapping a photo of you covered in birthday cake, the Hubble was snapping one of a dust storm on Mars.
Lower light and air pollution from recent lockdown orders means April 2020's Lyrid meteor shower could be the most visible in years.
From liaising with Martians to living on the moon, here’s where Soviet magazines thought the Cold War’s space race would take us.
There are nearly 40,000 documents from Sally Ride’s career in the Smithsonian’s archives, and you can help make them more accessible.
The next full moon is 2020’s biggest and brightest supermoon (though, despite its name, it won’t be pink).
The star recently spotted 1500 light-years from Earth is shaped like a teardrop and pulsates on one side, making it a celestial anamoly.
Explore black holes, hang out with robots, and get to know the team behind the Apollo missions with these space documentaries on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney+.
For one month only, any member of the public can apply to be an astronaut for NASA through the new listing on USAJobs.
Surprisingly, Nevada—home to alleged UFO testing ground Area 51—wasn’t among the top states for UFO sightings.
Earth's second moon, a "mini-moon" dubbed 2020 CD3, is about the size of a small car and may have been trapped in our planet's orbit for years.
Katherine Johnson—the mathematician known for calculating the equations that sent the first astronauts to the moon and breaking barriers in the civil rights era, as seen in 'Hidden Figures'—died the morning of Monday, February 24, 2020 NASA has announced.
Located past Pluto, the ultrared binary object Arrokoth is the farthest and oldest body ever studied up close. Data collected by NASA's New Horizons mission reveals insights about its formation and the origins of the solar system.
Take a break from your regularly scheduled stargazing to watch the moon swallow Mars on Tuesday morning.
Happy leap year! You can thank Julius Caesar and his buddies for bringing them to Europe more than 2000 years ago.
A solar telescope has captured the highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface ever taken, and it looks like the inside of a Cracker Jack bag.
Six decades after Félicette became the first cat to travel to space and the only cat to return alive, the history-making feline has received her own memorial.
February's full moon is named for the month's heavy snowfall. Here's what you need to know about the snow moon and how to see it on February 9.
A meteorite that landed in Australia in 1969 contains stardust that formed up to 7 billion years ago—making it older than the Earth or the sun.
TOI 700 d, an exoplanet orbiting a star 100 light-years away, is the first one discovered by NASA's TESS mission with the potential to support life.
This Friday’s full moon won’t be as striking as the blood moon of a total lunar eclipse, but it’s still worth a skyward glance.
From the origins of our species to clues about the future of the universe, scientific discoveries achieved in the last decade transformed our understanding of our world. Here are 14 of the most momentous.