With a total of four large moons known as the Galilean satellites. Jupiter almost qualifies as a solar system unto itself. Not only is Jupiter the largest planet in the solar system, it is also the most massive at more than 300...
Category - Discovery
A six-year search of space beyond the orbit of Neptune has netted 461 newly discovered objects. These extraordinarily distant objects might shed light on Planet Nine. A theoretical, never-observed body that might be hiding...
The new 3D map developed by Tully and colleagues shows that the Milky Way galaxy resides in the outskirts of the Laniakea Supercluster, which is about 520 million light-years wide. The Supercluster is made up of about 100,000...
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover took a spacewalk Saturday outside the International Space Station to upgrade the lab’s communications and cooling systems. The walk, which took place about 250 miles above...
For most of its existence, the Kazakhstan cosmodrome was a secret site whose location was unknown in the West. It was built at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, when Russia was part of the Soviet Union and the Space Age...