A year has 365 days because Earth takes about 365.25 days to orbit the Sun. The extra 0.25 days are balanced by adding a leap ...

Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

The NASA astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner could be on their way home sooner than expected due to weather conditions off the Florida coast.

The NASA astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner could be on their way home sooner than expected, and their landing will ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, ...