Summer arrives for northern observers as the Moon visits Venus, Uranus, and Mercury. Plus: globular cluster M15, double star ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

Adventure seekers and travelers might argue that summer informally begins with the Memorial Day weekend. Then there's solar ...

West Paducah’s Shawnee Steam & Fossil Plant fired its first coal stack — generating electricity for thousands inside the ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...

This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For decades, advocates of renewable energy have argued ...