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The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

The ability to join two satellites in space, known as docking, is critical for India’s upcoming Chandrayaan-4 mission and the ...

A later variation appeared in a book, titled The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins (1614-1672), an English ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

That means the same side of the moon always faces Earth, and the far side is the half we can't see from the planet's surface. 2:50 You may have heard the far side referred to as the “dark side ...

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

The first crewed mission in the Artemis program, called Artemis II, is designed as a similar journey—looping around the moon and flying back, perhaps as early as 2023.