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...
Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday. They spent 90 days at the Tianhe module on China’s space station...
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...
Russia launched a Soyuz rocket through a veil of fog over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Arktika-m satellite is successfully reached in its intended orbit after being launched from Kazakhstan’s. Soyuz rocket is the...
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...
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic successfully launched its founder Richard Branson and five other crewmembers into suborbital space on July 11, 2021 in a milestone mission that marked the first fully...
