Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

The poignant story of Laika, the dog sent into space with no means of return, has recently resurfaced online, reigniting a wave of sadness. Laika, a mixed breed from Russia, was just one of many ...

Three-and-a-half days after launch Monday from the Kennedy Space Center — and after 55 ... we are unable to see where we live. From this perspective, the mission has perfectly achieved its ...

WSJ’s economic reporters—Gavin Bade, Chao Deng and Theo Francis—received hundreds of great questions from our subscribers during a live event on April 7, and other WSJ reporters continued to ...

An asteroid will make a close pass of Earth this weekend and you can watch it live online ... You can watch the livestream here on Space.com courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project or directly ...

You may think that a metre of outdoor space might not be of significance ... Nick Bailey, designer of this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live headline show garden, The Plant-Based Garden, which is ...

This is the result of a sunglint, where sunlight bounces off the sea and directly back to an observing instrument in space. This can transform large patches of the ocean into swirling silver mirrors.

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Watch the news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston live at 2:30 p.m. EDT. Video feed courtesy of NASA.

Sunita Williams Press Conference: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, are currently undergoing rehabilitation after completing an unexpectedly extended space mission lasting ...