Using the most diplomatic language possible, the three billionaires who paid $55 million each for a trip to the International Space Station told a news conference they were overworked on their epic a… [+1931 chars]
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
The crew of private astronauts on Axiom Spaces Ax-1 mission says they were entirely too busy while on the International Space Station. So busy, in fact, it interrupted the other astronauts on the ISS… [+2005 chars]
May 15, 2022 marks the first anniversary of the remarkable touch-down by China's Tianwen-1 on Mars in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of the red planet, … [+2660 chars]
Global warming and climate change are causing irreversible damage to our planet in numerous ways -- whether it's the changes in weather patterns, changes in the lives of the flora and fauna or even c… [+2580 chars]
In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
By use of extremely powerful telescopes, scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the center of our galaxy. This object – known as Sagitt… [+3650 chars]
When NASA launches Artemis astronauts back to the surface of the moon in the years to come, they should be able to grow their own salad. That's just one ramification of a historic experiment in which… [+2272 chars]
A total lunar eclipse occurs overnight from Sunday to Monday. The moon will begin to enter Earth’s shadow at 4:27 a.m., and the peak phase is expected at 5:28 a.m., but the climax of the eclipse will… [+2285 chars]
Global warming and climate change are causing irreversible damage to our planet in numerous ways -- whether it's the changes in weather patterns, changes in the lives of the flora and fauna or even c… [+2580 chars]
The Perseverance rover has spent over a year on Mars since it landed on the red planet's Jezero crater on February 18, 2021. In a recent mission update, NASA's team handling the rover revealed that P… [+1936 chars]
