Moons come in many forms. To understand why there are no gas moons, in our solar system at least, it's best to first understand how gas giant planets form. There are two scenarios for gas-giant planet ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would ...

RUAG Space’s engineering and production capabilities will play a central role when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is launched from the KourouSpaceport in French Guiana, scheduled for December ...

Artificial intelligence is under a worldwide spotlight amid the proliferation of high-tech chatbots that can mimic human conversations. But long before ChatGPT hit the market, the space exploration ...

The secrets of how galaxies evolve might be lurking in the center of the Milky Way. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ever since ...

A new experiment set for an Aug. 14 launch to the International Space Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our ...

The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane journeys through the solar system and beyond. You can sign up for Launchpad for free here.

If we really are stardust—as Joni Mitchell sang and much research suggests—it seems only natural that we would wonder about this carbon-based substance and the faraway dimensions from which it arrives ...

Astronomers and engineers have developed a specialized system for their radio telescope to rapidly detect mysterious fast radio bursts and other space phenomena. The first trial of an ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century ...