It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.

His research focused on spiral galaxies and the direction in which they rotate. Logically, their spin should be evenly ...

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, ...

Each planet in our solar system takes a different amount of time to complete one orbit around the sun. For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun, takes just 88 Earth days to complete one orbit.

Blue Ghost performed a precise 16-second burn using its Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters to transition into a near-circular low lunar orbit. Earth rise, Earth set, repeat! Blue Ghost's third ...

The truth is we’re quickly moving toward a future that sees the immediate layer of space beyond Earth cluttered with debris, decommissioned technology, and satellite collisions. The ambition to ...

Telcos will be incentivised to partner with low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, such as the kind provided by Elon Musk’s Starlink operations, so that Australians can use their phones whether they ...