LUBBOCK, Texas — “Astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience,” according to author and astronomer Carl Sagan.

On Monday, September 11, 2006, the first episode of Astronomy Cast was promoted across the Internet. Twenty years later, on ...

The scientist honoured by the newest telescope in space spearheaded a pioneering programme as NASA’s first chief astronomer.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and partners are celebrating astronomy with space-themed fun for all ages. Astro ...

The recently launched Genesis Mission includes a wide range of projects aimed at using advanced computing and AI to tackle ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Between the Artemis II moon mission in April, the recent cosmic light shows from solar and lunar eclipses, and the Perseid meteor shower, excitement for real ...

Carnegie Science researchers took on all four questions during the 2026 Astronomy Lecture Series. If you missed the talks—or ...

AIP is pleased to announce Dennis Overbye as the winner of the 2026 Andrew Gemant Award. Overbye, the longtime cosmic affairs ...

In 1958, the U.S. Air Force secretly assembled a team of elite scientists, including a young Carl Sagan, with a single objective: detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon visible from Earth. The classified ...

In this dawning age of artificial intelligence, tech companies are racing to train and run their large language models using massive data centers that guzzle electricity and strain resources. Even ...

In 1959, a top-secret US Army study outlined a chilling plan to place a nuclear-armed military outpost on the moon before the Soviets could claim it. Declassified decades later, Project Horizon ...