At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s response to space weather conditions. However, to more directly study incoming ...

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

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

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

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

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

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

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

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

Astronomers are meticulously tracking the new interstellar visitor that is crossing our solar system. Officially designated ...