Despite the ongoing government shutdown, NASA did manage to complete a major milestone in its effort to send astronauts back ...

"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

Titan, the second largest moon in the Solar System—indeed, it is even larger than the planet Mercury—draws attention not only because of its size, but also due to its dense, hazy atmosphere, an ...

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --NASA and the European Space Agency are tracking the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object as it travels past Mars on its way toward the Sun and through the solar system. The object is thought to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

Skywatchers, rejoice. This month, not one but two comets are set to soar into our night skies for your viewing pleasure. The two comets, C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), were both discovered ...