Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele Hernandez Bayliss has captured stunning views of Messier 94 - also known as the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

On April 27, the moon blocked 23 percent of the sun in a partial eclipse, but it was not possible to see this from Earth.

There are few more iconic images from the Hubble Space Telescope than this one. A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Last year, the travel craze was for solar eclipse destinations. This year ... Meteors come from leftover comet particles and ...

Supermoons and micromoons happen a few times a year as the moon's full phase syncs up with its orbit. Another micromoon ... took place in March when a total eclipse turned the moon coppery red.

And increasingly local people don't want them built nearby. Putting data centres in space – either in orbit around Earth, or on the Moon - the theory goes, means they can't do quite so much harm.

The rare celestial event gave hundreds of millions of skywatchers across the country at least a partial view of the eclipse. During the full eclipse, the moon slipped directly in front of the sun ...

While the region was not in the path of totality, viewers did get a rare view of the celestial event. Scenes from the eclipse viewing event at SUNY Orange's Newburgh campus Monday, April 8 ...

Darkness falls on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge as the sun is covered by the moon during a solar eclipse on April 8 ... havoc on satellites in low Earth orbit, temporarily knocking out critical ...