In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) famously demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a ...

Welcome to Edition 7.15 of the Rocket Report! It's a big week for big rockets, with SpaceX potentially launching its next ...

In 1930, American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, which was initially hailed as the "tenth planet." For decades, it was considered a distant outpost of our solar system, orbiting beyond ...

That is likely to be Earth's fate. The sun will eventually inflate like a balloon larger than Earth's orbit today, engulfing Mercury and Venus in the process. As the star expands to become a red ...

Sometimes, life really does resemble a science fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than ...

Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit As of September 2024, there are 6,426 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,371 are working, according to Astronomer ...

Researchers examined Neptunian exoplanets -- these planets share similar characteristics to our own Neptune, but orbit outside of our solar system. Scientists discovered a new area called the ...

Unlike other spy satellites he’s photographed before, this one caught Schöfbänker’s attention because it had a different design and follows a unique orbit, he told Space.com. The satellite ...

2 the moon will be at apogee — the point in its orbit where it is farthest from Earth. The new moon on eclipse day will be 252,597 miles (406,516 kilometers) away. As a consequence, the tip of ...

It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path orbiting the Sun about 57 days later on 25 November, according to the ...