The system was installed on the side of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module on the ISS. From there, the rig of 4K ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Space can be a wondrous place ... has opened in the sun's atmosphere, spewing fast-moving solar wind toward Earth. The solar wind escaping from this coronal hole — the diameter of which measures ...

and as it continues on its orbit around the sun, it won’t return to Earth’s vicinity until 2028, Farnocchia said. If 2024 YR4 disappears from view before space agencies can entirely rule out ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up ...

“Pale Blue Dot” is rewardingly dynamic and contemplative enough to outdo the rest of Distance Over Time.

Jo Marchant, author of The Human Cosmos, and Smithsonian science editor Carlyn Kranking revel in auroras through the ages and ...

Anoushka Shankar continues to push the boundaries of Indian classical music with her fusion of electronic, jazz, and global ...

After attaining opposition with the sun last month, Mars is now moving away from Earth and consequently is ... direct your attention to the southwest sky to view a striking celestial tableau ...

Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.