A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

The Analemma Tower, a concept by Clouds AO, proposes a skyscraper suspended from an asteroid in geosynchronous orbit. This ...

The tower would hang down from this asteroid via a super-strong cable system called the Universal Orbital Support System ...

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket treated stargazers in Europe to a surprise display on the night of June 23, when ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and thick dust lanes forming its spiral structure. Viewed nearly edge-on from Earth ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Covering the western Pacific Ocean region, including Australia, is the Japanese Meteorology Agency's Himawari 9 satellite.

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are cutting back on the cost of satellites and launching more of them at faster ...