And it's especially tough now with the pandemic, everyone separated at home. This beautiful animated short film from Switzerland called The Lonely Orbit is about loneliness and everyone's eternal ...

Credit: Space.com | orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Stay in Orbit by Victor Lundberg / courtesy of Epidemic Sound There are just three nations that Britain can truly ...

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by the ATLAS survey on the day it struck Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation: ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

It's alarming to remember that no astronauts have been launched to orbit from the United States since 2011, when the ambitious but ultimately disappointing Space Shuttle fleet was retired. Sure, ...

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Asteroid 2024 BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) wide. Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited ...

Astronomical phenomena tend to occur over timespans that dwarf our human scale—a galaxy changes over millions and billions of years, not decades. But a new timelapse of observations of a distant star ...

Black holes continue to amaze us for an endless number of reasons. The celestial objects are furious feasters of gas and they send ripples through the fabric of spacetime. Now, in another ...

If star-hopping aliens ever visited our solar system, Saturn is probably the planet they'd remember. The seven giant rings circling its equator make Saturn the most distinct planet orbiting the sun.