Here then, is some background information to ... sunlight which has been bounced through space no fewer than three times: reflected first off of Earth, then out to the moon ...

Elon Musk is now considered a “special government employee” by the White House. But exactly what kind of access that provides ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Mars Adventure by Brend ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The simultaneous appearance of von Kármán vortices and the algal bloom is a complete coincidence and the two phenomena are in no way connected, according to Earth Observatory. Dutch explorers ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to ... asteroid scientists who were eager to find more, but no other candidates have emerged until 2024 PT5.

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

"Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans," the space agency told The New York Times. Since those ...

"Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they reenter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans," the space agency told The New York Times. Since those ...

Whatever your object is – a planet, a moon, an asteroid – it will be brighter than the dim stellar background. It is certainly possible to photograph stars in space, you just need to take on ...

could detect the space rocks astronomers haven’t been able to see in the past. Currently, there are no other known large asteroids that have more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth, according ...