The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) isn’t a cloud at all – it’s actually one of several dwarf galaxies that orbit a short distance from the Milky Way. […]

Look up at the sky on a dark night, and you’ll see hundreds of stars. But only a few will really stand out – have you ever wondered why? […]

NASA defines these areas as spots where a small body – such as a spacecraft – can stay in a consistent orbit between two very large masses, such as two planets or a planet and a large moon. […]

A European Space Agency spaceplane concept that meets the challenges of the new generation of reusable, low-cost, suborbital spacecraft! […]

While some planets were discovered by accident, we actually sought out Pluto. In 1906, a wealthy astronomer named Percival Lowell, who founded an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, began an extensive search for a planet beyond Neptune. […]

A galactic tide is a cosmic process in which an object of small mass is distorted gravitationally by one of larger mass, such as a satellite galaxy being influenced by a larger galaxy. […]

Unlike conventional chemical rockets that burn at a fast rate over a short period of time to generate huge thrust, ion drives run at a steady rate over a long period to generate a high velocity. […]

On the outside, Saturn almost looks like a calm, bland world, but once in a while, huge storms flare up on the ringed planet. […]

Now this is really bad weather – a dust storm that doesn’t just cover an area, or even a hemisphere, but the entire planet. […]

Asteroid impacts on Mars created underground cracks in the ground that filled with water and might have been the perfect hiding place for Martian life, according to scientists at Brown University, USA. […]