Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space Station, and the decade he had to prepare for his ...

A 2023 satellite image captured a pair of peculiar phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky around Norway's Bear ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows the moons Titania, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel and Puck. Credit; Space.com | ...

Sitting in the middle of the Iranian plateau, the Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, is the planet’s 24th largest desert.

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There is more space junk in Earth's orbit ... happen when the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO)—roughly 100-1,200 miles above our planet—reaches a certain critical level.

Some of these compounds are found in space ... how planets could acquire organics in the absence of life,” said Christopher Glein, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute. Many ...

Low-Earth orbit, which extends to around 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers ) above the planet’s surface, is by far the most crowded. This area is home to two crewed space stations and massive ...