The program would support China's future lunar exploration mission, including providing space-based inter-satellite ...

April’s pink “micromoon” will appear smaller than other full moons this year as it nears its farthest point from Earth in its ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde ...

Putting data centres in space – either in orbit around Earth, or on the Moon - the theory goes, means they can't do quite so ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfect; it’s elliptical, or egg shaped. So, there are points throughout the year when it’s closer to the Earth and points when it’s farther ...

Skywatchers around the world turned their heads — and lenses to the skies to capture the beauty of April’s full Pink Moon — ...

However, it won't be long before this weekend's record is going to be broken. Almost every year in the next 12 years will ...

Historical context of GNSS in space. The latest historic chapter in GNSS for space users was launched, as one would expect, ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...