Space

Sunlight helps to sustain life on Earth; as soon as we step outside and tilt our faces up,…

On Aug. 27-28, 2026, a very deep partial lunar eclipse will be visible from Europe, Africa, North America…

Like a certain extraterrestrial, SpaceX’s Starship 40 is set to depart its adopted safe harbour of Christmas Island…

A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The idea…

President Donald J. Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to each member of NASA’s Artemis…

The early hours of Friday 28 August will reward very early risers in the UK, Europe and Africa…

No astronaut has returned from Mars with osteopenia. No human being has travelled to Mars at all. The…

For 28 days in early 2025, WASP-127b held one of planetary science’s most striking records. Atmospheric material around…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to…

A spectacular fireball streaked across the Hungarian sky early on Saturday, briefly turning night into day in parts…

NASA calls this image “Pluto’s Blue Sky.” It’s a backlit view of Pluto, acquired by the New Horizons…

HELSINKI — China has postponed its Chang’e-7 robotic lunar south polar landing mission just hours ahead of a…

Sunlight Travel Time: In 1992, scientists found out that light formed in the Sun’s core takes 1,70,000 years to reach its surface; Why does the sunlight that takes 8 minutes to reach Earth require lakhs of years to come out?