"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

The Euclid space telescope has dropped its first data and deep field observations showing millions of galaxies in great detail as it hunts for dark matter and dark energy clues.

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It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. The dark satellite was the first object to demonstrate the effectiveness of the U.S.’s new watch ...

The researcher noted the irony of space scientists — “a community of troubleshooters” — not being able to “fix it.” “It’s really hard to watch,” and they are trying to find a ...

The space elevator idea dates back to 1895, when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky imagined a giant ladder reaching from Earth to space. A satellite in geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above ...