Astronomers have discovered more than 300 exoplanetary systems that have three or more known planets. Most of these planets are about the same size and spaced close together, earning them the ...

It's a win-win, and it's why everything on iStock is only available royalty-free — including all 4K Resolution images and footage. What kinds of royalty-free files are available on iStock? How can you ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low Earth orbit. The growth in the population of ...

The collaboration — between The Nature Conservancy, Planet, and Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab — is designed to track the spread of wind and solar over time, so that planners can better ...

Two NASA astronauts have splashed down off the coast of Florida after spending more than nine months stuck in space. Butch Wilmore ... as they whizzed around the planet at 17,500mph.

Gradually descending, the capsule carried the astronauts from the space station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth, toward the thick inner layer of our planet’s atmosphere.

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn't mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's ...

Such a swarm could beam ads down toward our planet for potentially hours each and every day. Their vision, Sitnikov says, is “to prove that space is not just for scientists, not just for the ...

United States astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore went to space on board the Boeing Starliner Calypso on June 5, 2024. They were meant to spend eight days on the ...