Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

China has successfully deployed the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit of the ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

The company now plans to extend into on-orbit servicing and refueling missions, end-of-mission disposal, and cross-orbit ...

Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth ...

due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

SPACE is set to be flooded with even more stars in the future following pop icon Katy Perry’s successful mission this week.

New research suggests that the unexpected intensity of the ongoing solar maximum may be partly tied to a lesser-known, ...

The scientists made a computer model of the solar ... million miles from Earth. If a young Jupiter had passed through the belt while settling into its orbit around the Sun, it would have scattered ...

The Moon is a moving target; the combination of the Moon's 2,288 miles-per-hour orbit and Earth's 1,000 miles ... Moon is constantly being illuminated by the Sun, there are a few days each month when ...