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A preview of the U.S. National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe gallery.

Using some of the world’s largest radio telescopes to scan the stars for signals astronomers have been listening for signs of extraterrestrial life.

What’s new in aviation and space. The latest on the search for Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra. 

For twenty years Mars Rovers and Orbiters have worked to unlock the secrets of the Red Planet. This excerpt from curator Matt Shindell's book For The Love of Mars tells the tale.

The Ingenuity prototype will join other robotic explorers on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Astronomer Phil Plait recently published Under Alien Skies. We caught up with him in this interview.

In 1142 a total solar eclipse with much the same path as the one coming up April 8. It was also the sign in the sky the Seneca needed to join the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a representative democracy that would govern six tribes below Lakes Erie and Ontario.

Did you know that it takes the Earth 365-ish days to orbit the sun?

What’s new in aviation and space.

On September 18, 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were in Pittsburgh to play a game against the Pirates. In the fourth inning, with the score tied 0-0, announcer Red Barber’s radio broadcast was disrupted, and listeners suffered 15 minutes of silence. When the broadcast resumed, the Pirates had scored four runs.