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

Learn about those who have explored space in the past and what they found out! Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and First ...

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

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

Down To Earth Community Lab: Join your fellow space explorers to ask questions, share out-of-this-world ideas, and forge new ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

A more realistic use for lasers is for deflecting incoming asteroids or as propulsion systems for spacecraft. In a new paper, ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Russia’s space agency says two Russians have set a record for the longest continuous stay on the International Space Station.

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

Long-sought evidence of alien life could lurk in Earth's oceans, or in 'weird' objects orbiting near our planet, Harvard ...