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The next time astronauts land on the moon, we will watch it in high-definition. The transmission will be in color, digital and at up to 60 frames per second.
A total solar eclipse was captured from a NASA Gulfstream III aircraft flying 25,000 feet above Oregon’s coast. The eclipse, where the Moon passed in front of the Sun, cast its shadow across a narrow ...
A US startup is looking to our closest satellite to fill a resources gap here on Earth. Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but ...
Today's new moon is a supermoon. This invisible moment of the lunar cycle was captured by NASA's PUNCH mission for the first ...
American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...
Floated by Carl Sagan in the 1970s, terraforming Mars has been relegated to the pages of science fiction. But could it work?
A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been mapping the Moon since 2009, helping identify important scientific sites ...
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.
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, ...
The United Arab Emirates Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) will send the Rashid 2 rover to the Moon on the Firefly ...
If you enjoy being outdoors on summer nights, June is a great time to start looking up! Even without a telescope, the skies ...