On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour.
SETI research often involves hunting for technosignatures—evidence of technology from distant civilizations. But how detectable is Earth to others with technology similar to our own? In a recent SETI ...
On a quiet Friday, a big earthquake hit Myanmar, killing more than 1,600 people and causing a lot of damage. Buildings fell, ...
It is normal for Earthlings to expect the Moon to shine high in the night sky but what if it disappears after drifting away ...
Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar suffered extensive damage, with images from the capital, Naypyidaw, showing rescue crews ...
The word equinox comes from two Latin words meaning equal and night. That’s because on the equinox, day and night last almost the same amount of time — though one may get a few extra minutes, ...
When early astronomers observed the sky, they imagined the vast array of stars embedded in a giant "crystalline sphere" that encompassed the Earth and the Sun. They believed that the planets ...
Hours after NASA and SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrived at the International Space Station, Crew-9 boarded the Dragon spacecraft and undocked from the ISS en route back to Earth.