On 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The mission was part of NASA’s Mercury human spaceflight programme and came just nine months after Soviet ...

The American Museum of Natural History’s new Hayden Planetarium space show, Encounters in the Milky Way, depicts cosmic ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system ...

The new book "Gemini and Mercury Remastered" features iconic images from the earliest days of human space exploration ...

A newly formed support group for the Green Bank Observatory in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, now under threat from ...

Space inventions we all take for granted include everything from smartphone cameras to car sun shades. Plants are the next ...

It was a helmet-shaped rock captured by Nasa’s Perseverance rover that sparked alien conspiracy theories this month. The ...

Private companies can track many changes on Earth from space, but both public and commercial satellite missions are needed to ...

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Over 2.5 million people sign petition in support of truck driver Harjinder Singh after fatal Florida crash Iran's supreme ...

Black contributions to space exploration have been essential to the success of the field, from the "Hidden Figures" of the 1960s to modern astronauts and scientists, and even the ancient African ...

Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a bizarre helmet-shaped rock, shedding more light on how winds shape the Red ...