During an equinox, places around the globe experience nearly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime. The second occurrence ...

Upon separation just over an hour after liftoff, the spacecraft will rely on its meticulously designed propulsion system ...

Credit: CNSA/CLEP HELSINKI — The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return mission is now at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange as part of extended activities. The orbiter was a ...

A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is bright enough to be seen in the early morning sky with just your eyes. But only if you know when ...

The spacecraft’s launch window opens on 10 October. If it takes off successfully next month, the orbiter will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. Its nine instruments will then investigate both ...

Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ...

India's Venus orbiter mission will explore Venus's atmosphere and surface. The ISRO mission will utilise the LVM-3 rocket. India's Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), aimed at studying various aspects of ...

An asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, will become a ‘mini-moon’ of Earth for a few weeks, orbiting our planet before escaping Earth’s gravity and resuming its orbit of the Sun. The 33-foot asteroid will ...

After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any astronaut since the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and ’70s. By Kenneth ...

Beginning Sunday, Earth's skies will soon have a temporary visitor. On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two ...

On the same day that a crew of private spacefarers completed the first ever spacewalk by commercial astronauts, Earth’s orbit is more populated than ever. With the arrival of three people to the ...

tech billionaire Jared Isaacman opened the hatch on a SpaceX Dragon capsule in Earth orbit, as cheering erupted on a livestream Margherita Bassi Amateur astronomers can use NASA's mobile app to ...