Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

Have you ever wondered how long it takes for each planet to orbit the Sun? From Mercury’s blazing 88-day year to Neptune’s astonishing 165-year journey, every planet moves at a completely different ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Technically, it's not a real moon. It's what scientists call a quasi-moon—a space rock that doesn't orbit Earth directly but ...

In December 2024, Buddhist monks from Japan attempted unsuccessfully to send a small temple on board a satellite into orbit.

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

Sacramento State’s planetarium coordinator Kyle Watters shares how he developed a passion for astronomy and what audiences can expect during the upcoming planetarium shows on Oct. 24-26.