Thought up back in 1978 by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais, the Kessler syndrome says that humanity is ...

As heads of the world’s great space powers - except for outcast Russia - summit, they are strategizing how to prevent space ...

Combining the satellite data with evidence of magnetic field line movements on Earth, European geoscientists mapped the ...

Catch some shooting stars, get in a glimpse of the fading Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, and see Venus mingle with Antares in the ...

Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...

Despite not heading directly to Jupiter, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is embarking on a six-year odyssey to explore the icy moon Europa. This extended travel time is primarily due to the spacecraft's ...

The Gaia mission from the European Space Agency, however, has found that there may be more moons than we expected. A lot more ...

Although thousands of exoplanets are known, no moon has yet been found outside the solar system. This may now have changed.

New research from the University of Arizona suggests an unexpected connection between the Lower Colorado River Basin and the surface of Mars, offering a potential window into the ancient climate of ...

The Europa Clipper mission will only be able to do a low fly-by of Europa for a couple of hours every three weeks, because longer immersion in Jupiter’s huge radiation zone would fry its electronics.

An observation tower overlooks a Panama rainforest where scientists from ORNL and other partners are working on the DOE Next ...

About 40% of disused satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere these days belong to SpaceX 's Starlink megaconstellation, according to Andrew Bacon, the chief technology officer and co-founder of ...