The Hubble Space Telescope has for the first time captured how a giant storm on Neptune took shape, giving scientists insights to the inner workings of the poorly-understood ice giant planets.
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NASA’s New Horizons mission team on Monday unraveled mysteries of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by mankind.
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After years of global efforts, the first ever images of our own Galaxy’s central black hole are expected to come out within this year, according to scientists working in the project.
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The Milky Way is as heavy as 1.5 trillion Suns and measures 256,000 light years across, according to latest findings.
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The Australian government launched the Australian Space Agency (ASA) in 2018, the country’s first national space agency, with headquarters to be established in Adelaide in 2019.
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Russia is developing a “space yacht” that is able to take off from ordinary airfields like an aircraft to send tourists to near-Earth orbit.
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Israel is about to make history by launching the first private spacecraft to the moon this week, the developers behind the lunar mission announced.
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Russia plans the country’s first manned mission to the moon in 2031, RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday, citing a document by the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building.
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An Australian and Chinese collaboration has created the most accurate 3D model so far of the Milky Way, showing the galaxy to be curved rather than a flat disc shape.
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Innovative new research is allowing local scientists to detect and study mysterious particles, of unknown origin, which smash into the earth’s atmosphere at close to the speed of light.
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