Legendary astronaut James “Jim” Lovell, whose steady command during the harrowing Apollo 13 mission captivated the world, died Friday in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97. A veteran of four ...

During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...

Early understanding of the Milky Way's shape was limited by our internal perspective, initially assuming a typical spiral structure. In 2005, the GLIMPSE survey, utilizing data from the Spitzer Space ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

All Apollo lunar modules, except for Apollo 10's "Snoopy," either impacted the lunar surface or disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere. Apollo 10's lunar module, "Snoopy," was jettisoned and intended to ...

Reanalysis of data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, initially suggesting a global subsurface liquid water ocean on Saturn's moon Titan, now indicates the presence of a large, slushy region beneath ...

NASA has released a 3D animation depicting the exterior of the upcoming Gateway space station, a lunar orbiting outpost designed to facilitate extended space missions. Scheduled for launch in 2025, ...

Asteroid 2019 LF6, a newly discovered Atira asteroid, has an orbit entirely contained within Earth's orbit, a characteristic of this rare class of near-Earth objects. The discovery of 2019 LF6 is ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a sign of water vapor in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet, according to an analysis of observations published last year in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

When it comes to appearances, the universe is a tricky place. Visible light occupies merely a sliver of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. To study the cosmos in its entirety, scientists must peer ...

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, will eventually explode as a supernova. The supernova will be as bright as a half-moon for over three months, visible even during the day. The explosion poses no ...

‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected within our solar system, exhibited unusual characteristics including an extreme shape and non-gravitational acceleration, prompting diverse hypotheses ...