Images captured by spacecraft tracker appear to show China's mysterious space plane sporting a delta-wing design.

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The evening of Tuesday, September 17, 2024, saw a beautiful partial lunar eclipse as the full "Harvest Supermoon" drifted ...

The next full Moon is the Hunter's Moon, which will occur on Thursday, Oct. 17. That evening, the Moon will rise above the ...

The four known satellites of Uranus, which revolve in a ,plane which is nearly perpendicular to that of the ecliptic, appear at their vast distance from us to have diameters varying between 500 ...

If the earth's axis were perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, and if the earth and moon revolved in circular orbits at uniform velocities around their respective centers of motion in that ...

Occultations of the Pleiades don’t occur every month, or even every year, because the Moon’s orbit is tilted with respect to the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, called the ecliptic.

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

After travelling over 47 years in space, Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft thrusters have reportedly been clogged with silicon ...

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, sees a partial lunar eclipse as a full "Harvest Moon" drifts through the edge of Earth's shadow in space. It will set up a "ring of fire." ...

A lunar eclipse is something that always demands attention. This phenomenon occurs in several variants. It is the moment when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, creating ...

The researchers' simulations showed that if the visiting star swooped past at a 70-degree angle to the ecliptic plane ― the plane in which Earth orbits the sun ― it catapulted roughly 7% of ...