“Hidden Figures” and “First Man” were arguably the most inspirational space-themed movies of the last several years. Both, though, had to reach back to the glory...
Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely different kind of star than previous endeavors. The revised measurement,...
Little more than a decade ago, two astronomers discovered mysterious bursts of radio waves that seem to take place all over the sky, often outshining all...
A fuel leak in the rocket engine forced India to abort the launch of its landmark Moon mission less than one hour before liftoff, media reports...
The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it’s unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has areas...
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Quentin Changeat, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astronomy, UCL Billy...
Added airglow from orbiting objects crosses astronomical threshold
An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth - at least not this century.
Elon Musk's company is heightening the risk of collisions between space objects by putting more satellites in orbit, space industry experts say.
A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first...