The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics. By Kenneth Chang and Irena Hwang Kenneth ...

NASA's Arcstone mission uses the Moon as a stable reference point to improve the accuracy of satellite sensors, a project that could standardise space-based Earth ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away. By Carl Zimmer In ...