The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Looking up at the moon in the night sky, it’s difficult to grasp just how dramatic the topography of its surface really is.

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Last week China announced that it is building the world's largest dam in Tibet - even larger than the Three Gorges Dam, which according to NASA, has slowed the Earth's rotation by 0.06 seconds.

Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin has teamed up with Verizon to help promote the company's satellite-based solution to cell service "dead zones" in a new commercial.

Celestis, a company specializing in memorial spaceflights, offers various services, including sending remains to Earth orbit, the moon ... years building and flying model rockets and creating ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his team, is reaching deep space beyond the Moon to determine how well Odin's ...

Researchers said the planet has a mass six times greater than our Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun. While located ... its peculiar orbit," he said.

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...

They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up ... That gaseous material is on its way to Earth, blowing out at speeds of more than 310 miles per second. Per Spaceweather.com ...