Shubhanshu Shukla is on his way back from orbiting laboratory, travelling in SpaceX's crew capsule named Grace. It is a 22.5-hour journey and is expected to splash down off the coast of California ...

Beyond their scientific value, these tiny satellites may also hold commercial potential. Because they briefly orbit close to ...

Ever wonder why the moon looks different every night? Well, that's because of a thing called the lunar cycle. This is a recurring series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

When viewing a meteor shower, you are seeing pieces of comet debris that heat up and burn as they enter the Earth's ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare ...

Earth’s rotation will speed up slightly on July 9, 22, and August 5, shortening each day by over a millisecond.

July 14 (UPI) -- The Axiom-4 space crew undocked from the International Space Station on Monday morning as it prepares to ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.