Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

MOSCOW, 12th March, 2025 (WAM) -- The International Space Station (ISS) has made its 150,000th revolution around the Earth since the beginning of its space mission, Roscosmos said on Tuesday.

KEITHVILLE, La. (KSLA) - Ready to retire, chimps from New Mexico are settling in at Chimp Haven. Chimp Haven, the world’s largest Chimpanzee sanctuary, has welcomed 10 new chimps from the Alamogordo ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

While Fram2 orbits Earth, the crew will sends images of various locations of the polar regions via ham radio, but these images will be "cut and mixed up as puzzle pieces." It will be up to the ...

But will he make friends? Yoko is in many ways more human than chimp, his caregivers say. He uses a knife and fork, plays ball, watches television and makes artwork with crayons on paper and canvas.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

The orbits of asteroids bring them within 120 million miles of the sun. Most near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids that range in size from around 10 feet to almost 25 miles across. "The majority ...

The different phases of the moon appear as the moon orbits Earth, changing our perspective of the half-lit moon, according to NASA. While the Earth’s shadow does not cause Moon phases ...

The moon orbits Earth once every 27 days or so. The phase we see it in (crescent, half full, and so on) depends on the angle between the sun, the moon and Earth. When the moon is new, between ...

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.