"From now on, you are a new Secret Royal Astronomer. Carry out your mission." On a drizzly July day, I visited T Factory in ...

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...

For decades, astronomers puzzled over the Sun’s missing silver. Turns out, we just weren’t looking at it in the right way.

India's first privately built orbital rocket, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, will try to reach orbit early on July 18, and you ...

Built in the 18th century as an astronomical observatory, Delhi’s Jantar Mantar evolved into the country’s most recognisable ...

Born on July 18, 1921, John Glenn grew up in Ohio and joined the Marine Corps in 1943. He flew 59 combat missions in World War II and 63 in the Korean War before being selected by NASA for the Mercury ...

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A high stakes voyage The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta spacecraft in 2004. Its destination was a massive, fast ...

Multi-million-dollar investment advances scientific instrument development and supports critical milestone toward completion of one of the world's most powerful telescopes ...

For many stargazers, astronomy starts with a first look through a telescope. Through the lens, planets, star clusters, and ...

Inventor Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia (then part of the Austrian Empire). In 1899, Tesla recorded cosmic radio waves in his Colorado Springs, Colorado, laboratory.

Modelling of the thermal and magnetic evolution of Neptune’s moon Triton indicates that it might possess an as-yet-undetected magnetic field, generated by a dynamo in its metallic core. If this field ...