Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this ...
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
Faced with myriad problems including gridlocked traffic and a sinking earth surface in its current capital, Iran is ...
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...
Two American astronauts on the ISS, Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams, reject claims of abandonment, emphasizing their ...
Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...
Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study ...
Any debris created by damaged satellites measuring larger than 1 cm can pose huge threats to other active, low-orbiting ...
On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...
A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...
A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.