The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

NASA and Russia at odds over cause and severity of the International Space Station's leak risks, including possibility of ...

However, due to the location of the object near the edge of two adjacent fields, the candidate was recognized as a moving ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The upper stage for Europe's newest rocket Ariane 6 passed its final tests at ESA's facilities in the Netherlands last week, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Let this postelection edition of Essential Arts double as a call to gather with our fellow citizens and experience art ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

In a huge upset for Democrats hoping to curb growth of private school vouchers, GOP lawmakers to lead both houses.

ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...