Citizen scientists will look for warped spacetime using data from the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope.

What’s the purpose of your study? It’s the question many basic-science researchers dread. And it’s the question that Carly Anne York received about 10 years ago from a fellow volunteer at the Virginia ...

The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Weir: It's actually ...

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be.

New research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has found that citizen science initiatives could be one of the keys to unlocking ...

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you’re there? Project Hail Mary opens in theaters March 20. Ahead of the film’s release, Astronomy spoke with ...

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...