July 22 will be the second-shortest day of the year, as Earth completes a full rotation in less time than usual.

Two minor meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — peak overnight on July 29-30, making it a ...

The Pope's phone call to the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 mission, the 95-year-old astronaut Buzz Aldrin, ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

For years, however, the Earth has been spinning faster, making days shorter, though scientists aren’t 100% sure why. Earth ...

On December 18, the beautiful celestial phenomena of the "companiment" moon in Bisuwu will appear in the sky. At that time, ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian ...

Earth has been spinning faster for the past few years — a trend that could lead the world’s timekeeping institutions to take ...

The soonest total eclipse will be August 12, 2026. It will only be visible in a sliver of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and ...

Watch teen’s emotional reaction seeing herself with hair for the first time ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla (Shux), who returned from his Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station on July 1.

Our tiny blue planet has been immortalized in breathtaking images captured from the far reaches of space. These photographs, ...