The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

The continent’s imminent attempt at a commercial orbital launch could be the start of a bold new era that ends Europe’s ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

The space and science facts in a key Ridley Scott movie are broken down by real astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, who was left ...

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The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

The lack of geological activity and the cold, arid climate on Mars have helped preserve this invaluable organic matter for the past 3.7 billion years. It therefore dates from the period during ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed. Scientists have announced ...