Have you ever wondered why some telescopes are launched into space while others are built on remote mountain tops? What is actually the best for astronomy? Here we provide a ringside view of the fight for the elusive photons from deep space - is it a battle of the telescope giants?

As 2015 comes to a close we look back at an exciting year of reaching new heights and revealing the unknown for the benefit of humankind.

2015 marks 50 years of successful NASA missions to Mars starting with Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, a total of 15 robotic missions led by various NASA centers have laid the groundwork for future human missions to the Red Planet. The journey to Mars continues with additional robotic missions planned...

The first American woman in Space talks about her historic flight on NASA's 50th anniversary. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 on the STS-7 mission.

40 years ago, if you were to ask somebody what the future of transportation is going to look like, they might tell you it would be flying cars. But right now, in 2022, if you might ask what the future of transportation will look like by the year 2050, people might think of point-to-point suborbital...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun beaming back photographs of the surface of Pluto as it approaches the dwarf planet. . Report by Conor Mcnally.

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Astronomers have found the earliest stars in the universe After picking up faint signals from the earliest hydrogen gas ever detected, astronomers have found evidence of the very first stars in the Universe, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The findings have also unexpectedl

Scott Kelly and his twin brother, Mark Kelly—also an astronaut—were the subjects of the study that sought to find out exactly what happens to the body after a year in space. Scott stayed on the International Space Station from March 2015 to March 2016, while Mark remained on Earth. This was the fina

Some lucky early risers in parts of the northern hemisphere were met with a halo like sunrise early onJune 10, 2021. The annular solar eclipse, also known as a ‘ring of fire’ eclipse, happens when the moon moves between the earth and the sun.