Right now, space travel is limited to trained astronauts and cosmonauts, and the super-wealthy. This means there is little ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

Seven Tianzhou spacecraft, the main unit of China's Tianhe orbital station, its Wentian and Mengtian laboratory modules, the Tianwen-1 Mars probe and the Chang'e-5 and Chang'e-6 unmanned lunar rovers ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

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In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.