Upon separation just over an hour after liftoff, the spacecraft will rely on its meticulously designed propulsion system ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

We know that beneath its crater-pocked silicate crust, the moon has an olivine mantle and a metallic core. Some research has ...

On Sept. 29, the Earth will temporarily get a second moon. A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit before being released ...

Our planet has many fields: corn fields, gravitational fields, and magnetic fields. However, for decades, scientists have ...

But now physicists have designed an experimental setup that could in theory detect these tiny quantum objects. In the same way individual particles called photons are force carriers for the ...

A small asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will become a temporary "mini-moon" for Earth this autumn, captured by the planet’s ...

Get ready for a cosmic surprise this autumn - Earth is about to get a second moon, according to scientists. A small asteroid ...

The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by ...

A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...