A new documentary is shedding light on a remarkable period in Earth’s history—one when large parts of Greenland, now buried ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Every time a rocket is launched, tons of valuable materials are lost, and huge amounts of greenhouse gases and ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The allure of space has evolved from a government-led endeavor to a booming private industry, with the global space economy projected to skyrocket to over $1 trillion by 2040, a massive leap from its ...

SOFIA -- "Blue Planet Outside the Window" or "SHENZHOU XIII," China's first space documentary filmed in space, was screened ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to ...

Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched from a rocket in ...

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