Space

On 28 March 2015, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft passed about 14 kilometres above the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. That…

Some members from NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class pose during outdoor geology training in May 2026. (Image credit:…

Potential dark matter detection sparks hope in search for elusive substance Dark matter is invisible and makes up…

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To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through…

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took its first photo of Earth and the moon. It…

Last winter I made two trips to see the aurora, one to northern Canada and the other to…

Pikachu is one of Earth’s newest outer space ambassadors, thanks to a new partnership. The European Space Agency…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may be able to operate for far longer than originally expected. An…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may be able to operate for far longer than originally expected. An…

In 2023, scientists released possibly the most spectacular view of Uranus ever seen. The image was captured by…

Echoing the iconic Earthrise photo captured by the Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968, during the Artemis II lunar…

During a close pass over comet 67P, Rosetta’s star trackers registered hundreds of sunlit dust grains as “false stars,” disorienting a spacecraft more than 400 million kilometres from Earth and forcing it into safe mode.