The European Space Agency recently inaugurated the New Norcia 3, a 115-foot deep-space antenna located in Western Australia.

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...

As we prepare for missions beyond Earth orbit, one crucial challenge remains: keeping astronauts healthy in microgravity.

A colossal cosmic filament, measuring 50 million light-years long, has been discovered spinning in deep space, astonishing astronomers with its scale and movement. The filament, which contains more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Between adjusting to gravity and floating through choppy waves, returning to Earth from space can be nauseating. Keegan ...

In a research article recently published in Space: Science & Technology, a team lead by professor Chengchao Bai from Harbin Institute of Technology puts forward the idea of “discretization of the ...

NASA's ambitious mission to return astronauts to the moon for the first time this century is on track to launch no later than April 2026, but it just might fly sooner if all goes well. Final tests of ...

Space manipulators play an important role in the on-orbit services and planetary surface operation whose reliability is a key issue. In the extreme environment of space, space manipulators are ...