On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

It is also simply not true that closing borders makes societies safer; Mendiola says only political will is needed for things to be different. But as more people than ever take to the streets in the U ...

By Denise Lineberry NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), a part of the NASA's three satellite Earth Radiation Budget ...

A total solar eclipse, the first for 2026, will take place today (). Over the years, different cultures — past and present — have put their own spin on this celestial event. In India, a solar eclipse ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said the measurements of Aditya-L1 satellite, launched as part of India''s maiden Solar mission, helps explain unusual dawn-time geomagnetic ...

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, a small icy body orbiting Jupiter’s neighborhood, did something astronomers rarely witness ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

A new candidate for a planet similar to but slightly larger than Earth could be about 146 light-years away. However, one unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b, which revolves around ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

Explore gravity's essential role in Earth's fast-paced journey through space and its impact on life and science.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...