A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

These measurements are necessary for improving our ability to accurately predict satellite locations so that we can perform ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered ... It was an important lesson: Adding velocity raises altitude, which moved Gemini into a higher orbit than the ...