The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The video discusses NASA's shuttle Endeavor, which is set to launch with a mission to rescue a malfunctioning international communication satellite. The astronauts will use the shuttle's robotic arm ...

Researchers and students from the University of Würzburg are tracking asteroids with a telescope on the Hubland Campus. The ...

To make space servicing safer and more efficient, researchers created a fuel-efficient, collision-free trajectory ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft to reach them safely. Researchers are developing a ...

The sky is awash with radio-frequency interference (RFI), but thanks to two astronomers who tracked down a stray TV broadcast reflected off a passing airplane, there may be a new way to wipe out some ...

A rare full seven-planet alignment will be visible in the early night sky between Feb. 22 and 28. We have the tips you need ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to the planet to minimal levels, but the extraordinary close approach will now offe ...

As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, researchers are refining its orbit — and its ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Einstein Probe captures a rare X-ray flash from an unusual celestial pair. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The European ...