How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

But in space or on the Moon, there are no power lines, no sunlight at night and no backup grid. Every system — from life ...

Thanks to its innovative orbital configuration, MESOM would effectively experience a total solar eclipse every synodic month as it naturally passes through the apex of the Moon’s umbral cone, or the ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

Thousands of federally funded researchers across Nasa and US government departments are affected by decision to cancel ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Research teams led by CAS institutions including the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) and the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with Nanjing University and others, have made ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...