Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a newly televised interview the country was preparing to launch a series of crewed and uncrewed space missions, including to the moon and Mars.
The Kepler spacecraft lived through a mechanical failure in 2013, which ended its primary mission, but there is no way to replenish its depleting fuel, NASA said Wednesday.
Although astronomers previously thought the strange signal came from dark matter – that is not the case.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been steadily contracting for over a century and could also completely disappear.
The experiment by Russian scientists was to simulate the effect a nuclear weapon would have on an asteroid that was headed on a collision course with Earth.
Tiangong-1 is set to crash to Earth, currently expected in the first week of April. But China’s plans for Tiangong, its space station, are moving ahead despite that failure.
The ancient galaxy, which is about a quarter the size of the Milky Way, failed to gather enough material to grow in size and is now in a state of “arrested development.”
One of the 15 newly discovered planets, orbiting a red dwarf star located about 200 light years away from Earth, could be a super-Earth located within the habitable zone.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be NASA’s successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and the project is a partnership with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency.
Scientists used data from three NASA satellites to recreate a 3D view of massive explosions that occur on the surface of the sun.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences said it was starting work on the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) satellite, a space observatory to study black holes, neutron stars and quarks.
Data gathered by NASA’s Juno spacecraft has fueled four research papers that will help improve scientists’ understanding Jupiter’s core mass, internal structure and its origin.
Astronomers used several telescopes to peek into Orion Nebula's inner web of cosmic activities.
Tiangong-1 was the first module of China’s planned space station, but it failed early in 2016. Currently in an erratic orbit around Earth, it is predicted to crash to the surface soon.
Astronomers discovered an unusual moment in the birth of a rare binary star system, made up of a red giant star and a neutron star.
HR 4796A is located about 237 light-years away, and is merely 8 million years old. The star, which has been observed by Hubble earlier too, is in its planet-forming phase.
Landings on the moon and Mars, its own space station, and two crewed space flights every year are all part of China’s highly ambitious space program, which has advanced rapidly in the last two decades.
If you ask Stephen Hawking, the answer is a simple “nothing,” except it isn’t quite all that simple, what with the mention of a singularity at the time of the Big Bang.
The discovery, which could be “the first direct proof that dark matter exists,” also suggested the universe was twice colder than expected in its early years.
The presence of water on the moon, as well as its accessibility, has ramifications for any future lunar bases that are being planned.
Brazilian researchers studied bacteria deep inside a South African gold mine, a site they called an “analogous terrestrial context” for Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself in standby mode Thursday, while NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity saw its 5,000th Martian dawn Saturday.
