"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Rocket Lab Corp., which launches rockets with diverse payloads, has been selected by the European Space Agency to launch the ...

EUMETSAT, The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, together with European partners, are pleased to invite ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...

The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million ...

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The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, traveled today to Central Texas to visit sites along the Guadalupe River ...

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Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the "Cosmic Dawn" by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...