Beyond their scientific value, these tiny satellites may also hold commercial potential. Because they briefly orbit close to ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Earth may briefly capture as many as six moon fragments — called minimoons — at any given time before they move on to orbit ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

Twilight' director Catherine Hardwicke explained that the studio did not congratulate her as they would a male director after ...

Thanks to its innovative orbital configuration, MESOM would effectively experience a total solar eclipse every synodic month as it naturally passes through the apex of the Moon’s umbral cone, or the ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly ...

In the middle of the Arizona desert stands a surreal, glass-enclosed world. A sealed replica of Earth's ecosystems that was once dismissed as an eccentric dream. Today, it is one of the most ambitious ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...