NASA The Apollo 12 spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Nov. 14, 1969, with ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969.  The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of ...

In the movie Contact (1997), a scientist travels to the star Vega and finds herself surrounded by a cloud of debris, a scene ...

"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

This phase of the moon is a great time for stargazing since the bright side of the moon faces away from Earth and won’t overshadow celestial bodies and events. Of course, clouds and other weather ...