The Deep Space Network enables communication with all the missions in space, from telescopes like Hubble to rovers and orbiters at Mars, and this week we feature one of those dishes alongside some ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

Helio Corporation (OTCID: HLEO) ("Helio" or the "Company") today reaffirmed the value of solar-powered orbital infrastructure, citing rising global investment and active international demonstrations, ...

The first-of-its-kind satellite system will use lasers to make high-resolution observations to map Earth's ice sheets and ecosystems.

The "ring of fire" eclipse occurred as the moon passed centrally in front of the sun, blocking 96% of its disk and creating a ...

Science fiction loves to look to the future, but these five shows look ahead to what's now our past. The results are fun and full of classics.

Chawla, a UTA alumna and the first Indian woman in space, died during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on the space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003.

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine wilderness and more like a crowded shipping lane, with thousands of ...