After two decades of observations, a supermassive black hole at the center of a nearby galaxy was discovered spinning, bolstering Albert Einstein’s century-old theories of general relativity, an astrophysicist told …
A secondary radiator on a Russian space station module sprang a leak Monday, the third time in the past year a Russian component has lost heat-dissipating coolant. What impact, if …
Since 2000, the International Space Station has sped through space at 17,500 mph, 260 miles above our heads, affording its rotation of seven astronauts to gaze on the vast majority …
Prada is taking the runway to outer space. The luxury Italian fashion house will help design the spacesuits astronauts will wear on the moon for NASA’s Artemis III mission expected …
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s James Webb Telescope has detected objects in space roughly the size of Jupiter, leaving astronomers astonished. During its survey of the Orion Nebula, the telescope …
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two Russian cosmonauts undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth early Wednesday, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out …
The NASA recovery team began by taking samples of the desert ground and atmosphere where the capsule landed. Then they gingerly loaded it onto a helicopter and transported it to …
A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth’s atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted touchdown in …
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The blazing surface of the sun froths with an extremely hot electrically charged gas called plasma. The temperature at the edge of this cosmic furnace runs at about 5,500 degrees …
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure …