The park containing the Maine Solar System Model's Jupiter on U.S. Route 1 in Westfield is complete once again with the installation of a refurbished moon Io. Kevin McCartney (left), University of ...

A giant mirror to create "sunlight on demand" was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety ...

Within our solar system, Uranus is a geometric oddball. Its spin axis tilts more than 90° from its orbit, so it essentially ...

Each blue dot represents one of 16,500 active satellites. GPS navigation, banking transactions, communications, weather forecasting, emergency response systems, agriculture, aviation and national ...

New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other global navigation satellite systems operating from higher orbital ...

China unveils a concept video for an international research base on the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta Impeachment articles filed ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded. About 16,000 satellites currently circle our planet, supporting everything from GPS navigation and weather forecasting to banking, emergency services and internet ...

NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with an unusually ambitious orbital rehearsal. During Artemis III in 2027, Orion astronauts will rendezvous and dock separately with ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Artemis II crew performed a special burn of the Orion capsule on Thursday evening. This critical burn is the last step to sending the four astronauts on a flyby of the moon.

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway ...

Sophisticated high-contrast imaging has revealed asteroid 44 Nysa to have three lobes and a small moon.