"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the ...
The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
However, when astronauts return to Earth, gravity pulls these fluids downward ... will play a vital role in ensuring the safety and well-being of future explorers.
"Gravity is really tough, and that's what we feel when we get back," said astronaut Butch Wilmore, who will return to Earth with Sunita ... dream that I am home as well. I think it's based on ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Beneath the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, a strange phenomenon has puzzled scientists for decades—a massive gravitational ...
For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and ...
Barnard's Star is the second-nearest star system to Earth, and four tiny planets have been discovered around it ...
On Earth, we have to contend with our own gravity well when we launch rockets and spacecraft; if a rocket isn't powerful enough to escape its gravity well, it will fall back to Earth. As matter ...