Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are located in an area called low Earth orbit — as ...

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

I had no real idea of what the observing site looked like, so scouting out a location to set up and get all of the gear ...

Earth's city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow ...

(encore) November 4, 2024 • How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific ... after it launched a new three-person crew to its space station early Wednesday as the country seeks ...

In a space station, you can no longer feel the effects of the gravitational pull from the Earth. Where there is no gravitational force, you cannot tell up from down. These clips can introduce ...

China's space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang'e 6 lunar far side ...

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For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini ... have been discovered to be random pieces of space junk. The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster ...