The Solar Orbiter, which is jointly managed by both NASA and European Space Agency (ESA), has created history. The spacecraft has taken the closest-ever photo of the Sun. The image showcases the star… [+2970 chars]
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours' worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson, this… [+4214 chars]
War always looks different from space. The five Russians, four Americans and one German currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will be able to see the smoke and flashes of miss… [+563 chars]
Asteroid Sar2594 (now officially called 2022 FD1) grazed Earths atmosphere at 08:10 UTC on March ... [+] 25, 2022 and passed through Earths mighty shadow in space as it cruised over the South Pacific… [+2110 chars]
Jessica Watkins, a planetary scientist and NASA astronaut, will travel to the International Space Station on April 15 and will most likely be in space when the agencys Artemis 1 mission to the moon l… [+5579 chars]
On Thursday, a potentially basketball-sized meteor streaked through the sky over Canada, capturing the attention of a slew of cameras and producing some spectacular videos. At around 2:46 a.m., a fi… [+3126 chars]
China's Venus mission might really happen as the Chinese government shows intent in expanding its planetary exploration efforts. China is considered one of the biggest competitors of the National A… [+2796 chars]
The long process of getting the James Webb Space Telescope ready for science operations continues, with the ongoing alignment of three of its instruments. Webb recently reached the major milestone o… [+2485 chars]
Washington: NASA said it has ordered six additional resupply missions from SpaceX under its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract and also placed an order for six more missions with aerospa… [+1372 chars]
As NASA prepares to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s, figuring out how to keep astronauts healthy during the three-year mission has been a challenge. But researchers from the University of … [+2655 chars]
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary, and then in through the aft optics assembly where t… [+4807 chars]
There are 118 elements on the period i c table , and you might think we are made up of many of them. But that’s not the case; the complex systems that make up our bodies have a surprisingly simple… [+3104 chars]