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NASA has led in low Earth orbit for 25 years and counting. Now, as we prepare for deorbiting the International Space Station in 2030, we’re calling on our commercial space partners to maintain ...
As of Saturday, Sept. 13, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 60% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation. So, what can we spot tonight? Without any visual aids spot ...
Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have spent two decades and large portions of their exorbitant wealth creating new space technologies. Their plan is to reshape how humans live.
North Korea fires solid rocket motor. North Korea said Tuesday it had conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket ...
A near-Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's newest quasi-moon.
The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...
Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...
Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...
That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.
The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to ...
Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary ...