China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

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A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...

The European Space Agency sent a plane to capture footage of the first of four Cluster mission satellites reentering Earth's ...

New proposed space missions, led by the University of Leicester, will study stellar impacts on planets and Earth’s ...

During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by ...

Clear images of flashing lightning are rarely taken from orbit around Earth because the phenomenon is normally ... He covers ...

At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...

Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more ...

In 2011, a ghostly depression, known as "the mitten," appeared on the surface of and ice sheet in Greenland after the ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...