China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Research teams led by CAS institutions including the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) and the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with Nanjing University and others, have made ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...

To understand gravitational lensing and dark matter, James Jee, a professor at Yonsei University, says to think of a pond ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...

A new image from NASA composed of different wavelengths created a stunning image of Andromeda. “This new image of M31 is released in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin, whose ...

New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe ...

Following a series of smaller, but ever-improving X-ray observatories, this vision was fully realized in July of 1999 with the launch and deployment of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.