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These are answers to common questions about the April 8 eclipse, and we’re offering you a place to pose more of them.

He broke barriers as the first Black physicist in nearly every role. But his identity made him reach for dreams beyond his career as a scientist.

But the new report suggests that the public’s belief that the government is hiding what it knows will probably continue.

A nova named T Coronae Borealis lit up the night about 80 years ago, and astronomers say it’s expected to put on another show in the coming months.

If all goes as planned, Odysseus, a private spacecraft, will touch down on the lunar surface on Thursday. It will be the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years.

Interest in sun shields, once a fringe idea, has grown. Now, a team of scientists says it could launch a prototype within a few years.

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would.

The phrase “wintry mix” fills me with despair. But even so, the lack of cold and ice in 2023 felt unsettling.