Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...

A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other ...

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday (April 30, 2025) after six months on China's space station. The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the return ...

Donald Pettit celebrates his 70th birthday bang on April 20 after coming He arrived with two other russian astronauts, Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan V He is a veteran U.S. astronaut who worked for around ...

A model of the Qingzhou cargo spacecraft is pictured at the preview of a science exhibition marking the 10th Space Day of China at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center in east ...

The energy beamed from space won ... from orbit to Earth. This year, a 400-pound satellite will launch into low Earth orbit and attempt something that once seemed confined to science fiction.

Three research objects - zebrafish, planarians, and Streptomyces - will be used in a set of life science experiments ... in addressing space-related health issues and aging on Earth, Cang Huaixing ...

an astronomer at Carnegie Science Observatories in Pasadena, Calif. Hubble was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 and shepherded into low Earth orbit by astronauts.

April 24 (UPI) --China launched a crew of three astronauts for orbit Thursday to begin a six-month-long mission aboard the Tiangong space ... low-Earth orbit from Florida's east coast. Science ...

Credit: NASA/GISS/Robert Schmunk BOSTON — NASA is canceling the lease for the offices of a branch of the Goddard Space Flight Center in New York that does Earth science research. In an April 24 ...