The autumn equinox takes place at 19:20 BST Monday – marking the point when the sun appears to shine directly over the equator. This annual astronomical milestone officially heralds the arrival of ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

China appears to have pulled off not only the first satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit, but also the “largest single manoeuvre” ever seen in that orbit, according to a former US ...

In its current form, Buick’s American lineup isn’t one that truly excites us. There are no muscle cars or luxury sedans as there were in Buick’s heyday, just several anonymous crossovers. And, even ...

Here in the U.S., the going hasn’t exactly been easy lately for Buick. It’s been struggling to connect with a younger audience as it attempts to try to carve out a niche for itself in several hyper ...

The first Australian -made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil crashed after 14 seconds of flight on Wednesday. The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, was the ...

Nearly a week after launch, space tracking systems were able to locate a mysterious satellite parked in an unusually low orbit. China launched the experimental satellite to test new technologies, but ...

Russia is a waning space power, but President Vladimir Putin has made sure he still has a saber to rattle in orbit. This has become more evident in recent weeks, when we saw a pair of rocket launches ...

In modern conflict, power is no longer just projected from aircraft carriers or missile silos – it now comes from constellations in orbit. What was once the preserve of scientific prestige has quietly ...

A British-built manufacturing satellite successfully launched into orbit on its first test mission. Cardiff-based startup Space Forge launched the probe — called ForgeStar-1 — aboard SpaceX’s ...

According to footage captured by s2a systems and uploaded to X, two Chinese satellites, Shijian-21 and Shijian-25, flew into extremely close proximity on both June 13 and June 14. This is notable, ...