As one prominent example documented in the book Hidden Figures (2016) by Margot Lee Shetterly (and subsequent film), the first United States space flights required computations to be done by human ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

Every good book takes you to a different place or time. Few books mix this magic more strongly than those whose characters ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape.

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

Wells's The Time Machine to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar ... make a space-time so bent that it has a hole in it.' The resulting structure would be known as a wormhole, or a tunnel through ...