Earth and Moon viewed from a distance of 1.4 billion km
Cassini, a spaceship with the mission to explore Saturn, captures green planets during its last days in outer space.
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Cassini, a spaceship with the mission to explore Saturn, captures green planets during its last days in outer space.
Since 1957, the low orbit around the Earth has become an environment full of 'garbage' after more than 2,200 satellite launches.
The age of this star is only a few hundred million years smaller than the universe.
In space, everything needs to be utilized, including astronauts' waste.
Russia is expected to send quail eggs and incubators to the International Space Station (ISS) next year to study embryo development.
Astronaut Doug Hurley said SpaceX not only plays all-hands for the appearance of the spacecraft, but also designed and built every detail inside SpaceX Dragon to operate…
The Abell 2384 system carries an obsession with dreary pasts. Several hundred million years ago, the two galaxies that formed this system collided with each other.
A team of astronomers from Cornell University in the US has proposed a new way to find out if an exoplanet is habitable.
The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, about 26,000 light-years from the Milky Way galaxy, could be a boost to the Sun's formation.
NASA shared photographs from the Landsat 8 satellite documenting the moment of water at the Edenville and Sanford dams on the Tittabawassee River, which flooded Michigan.
The Japanese team of scientists discovered a peculiar radio signal that they thought came from the center of the galaxy containing the Milky Way earth.
According to Cnet, many news sites quickly spread the news about NASA's findings, but misunderstood the nature.
Since ancient times, it was thought that Saturn was the only planet in the solar system with a ring. But it turned out not to be.
Hours after a meteorite descended near the remote village of Carancas in Peru in 2007, hundreds of people began to show strange symptoms.
Just like the movie 'The Twilight Zone', a team of NASA scientists working on Antarctica has discovered evidence of a parallel universe - where physical rules are comple…