The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

A Williamstown man will lead an Earth-based simulation of a Mars mission that will last for more than a year. Air Force Maj. Ross Elder, the son of Vincent and Tamy Elder, will lead researchers who ...

The concept of the Kessler syndrome is that the area around Earth gets too crowded to a point where we reach a saturation point where collisions begin and cannot be stopped. "Spent rockets, satellites ...

Celebrity Cruises’ seven-night Iceland Total Solar Eclipse itinerary (Aug. 8-15, 2026) onboard Celebrity Silhouette sails roundtrip from Reykjavík; and its 14-night Med, Spain & Portugal Total Solar ...

A new NASA-backed study suggests alien civilisations could eavesdrop on Earth's space transmissions, offering a new approach ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

The asteroid named 2025 FA22 was once categorised as potentially hazardous and is said to fly by Earth on September 12.