For the next few decades, a tiny asteroid will move quietly through space alongside Earth. This space rock, called 2025 PN7, ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for the last quarter of a century. But it was only this week ...

Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space.

Inside Mr. McCauley's art class at Aurora Frontier P-8, kids are encouraged to use their imagination. A recent assignment had students reaching for the stars. "They wanted drawing ideas of what life ...

On Monday, SpaceX made space history, as four astronauts were launched into a pole-to-pole orbit not traveled by any human before them. But why is this orbit so unusual, and why has nobody done it ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The number of spacecraft orbiting Earth is rising fast thanks to the emergence of private ...

A lot is going on in the skies this fall. You’ll see a powerful solar eclipse in Libra on Oct. 2, a full moon in fiery Aries on Oct. 17, and expansive Jupiter will be retrograde on Oct. 9. Oh, and ...

Satellite constellations are a relatively new threat to astronomy; prior to the drop in launch costs driven by SpaceX’s ...

An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon atmospheric reentry. A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago ...