It's nearly 170 million years old. It's more than 2.5 times the size of Earth. And it's the first exoplanet discovered and ...

High-energy particles in Earth's radiation belt can appear to spread out randomly, even when they are moving in a ...

Sticky satellites? Space harpoons? Robotic tentacles? Laser cannons? Space lassos? The fight against space junk continues ...

More often than not, anything “quantum” makes you think of stuff on the tiniest of scales. But in reality, quantum phenomena ...

"Fortunately, these very extreme cases are rare, but this also means we have limited data to work with." ...

Earth-observation technology has moved far beyond blurry images from space. Commercial satellites can already reach around ...

Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they ...

One of the time-lapses was captured by the Meteosat-12 satellite EUMETSAT in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

The solar wind may be stripping away Mars’ atmosphere by creating giant rolling waves along its outer edge. Data from MAVEN and Tianwen-1 show that these waves form plasma clouds that carry ...

Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth in 2029 ...

Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another planet's ...

While there is a total solar eclipse over parts of Europe, that “has no unusual impact on Earth’s gravity,” the space agency explained in a statement ...