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Caroline Herschel was England's first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later
Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today.
Sex between space tourists will happen eventually. But are we ready for babies conceived off Earth?
Humans have a knack for sharing intimate moments in unlikely places...
New data reveal US space economy's output is shrinking – an economist explains in 3 charts
Using the broad definition and adjusting for inflation, the relative size of the space economy fell by about one-fifth from 2012 to 2021.
NASA's Psyche mission to a metal world may reveal the mysteries of Earth's interior
Can what we learn about the metal asteroid Psyche with NASA's upcoming mission of the same name be extrapolated to solve some of the mysteries about the Earth's core?
Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter
Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up "dark matter." Deep beneath South Dakota, we're trying to change that.
First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history
How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.
The largest known asteroid impact structure on Earth is buried in southeast Australia, new evidence suggests
Search for Life In a new study, scientists reveal new evidence for the largest asteroid impact structure on Earth buried Australia in southern New South Wales.
Curious Kids: What comes after space?
To find out what is beyond space, a good place to start would be to figure out where space – our universe – ends. The problem is we don't know where space ends, or even if it ends at all.
