The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Madhouse's new historical anime about the discovery of heliocentrism is definitely a dark horse this season. Here's why it's ...

The comet—traveling about 44 million miles away—was observed from Earth for the first time earlier this month.

As heads of the world’s great space powers - except for outcast Russia - summit, they are strategizing how to prevent space ...

It takes the moon about 27 days to orbit the Earth. What makes it go round? It is the gravitational attraction of the Earth on the moon. Due to the moon's velocity, the Earth keeps pulling the moon ...

NASA and Russia are working together on addressing the situation in the wake of an Office of the Inspector General report last month.

The European Space Agency (ESA) aims to facilitate lunar exploration with its Moonlight programme to put satellites into ...

Earth’s tilt means the Sun both rises earlier and sets later as we head towards summer. When the clocks (in some states) ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to the ...