The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

Strawberry moon will be at full illumination June 11, the latest of the full moons tied to Native American tradition.

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

A strawberry moon, which is generally the last full moon of spring and the first full moon of summer, will hang overhead on June 11, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in launching a mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its ...

NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface ...

So much of pak, pak, pak-ing going on, I tell you! All for a name! That too half of it! And to top it all – a name which has ...

A new milestone in private space exploration is fast approaching as ispace, a Tokyo-based aerospace company, prepares for the ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

On Wednesday, 28 May 2025, the Maria-Margaretha-Kirch building on the campus of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Potsdam-Babelsberg was officially inaugurated. With the new ...