NASA announced the 2025 class of astronauts, and it includes someone who already is a record-breaking astronaut.

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Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the ...

Ripples in spacetime now give astronomy a second sense. The network listens to collisions, maps a low-frequency background ...

On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch ...

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

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 ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon positions itself between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. We explore the ...

NASA is currently targeting no earlier than 2027 for the crewed Artemis III mission, but yet another delay seems likely.