You almost certainly know Newton's famous thought experiment about orbits, but just in case you don't, here it is, as presented by Universe Today's Fraser Cain: Imagine you had a cannon that could ...

Two weeks after entering solar sailing mode, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft has managed to raise its orbit by nearly 2 miles, in an important test of this promising new means of ...

Space-based telescopes have changed our view of the Universe in the last 25 years and the future looks promising. A number of new observatories and observing techniques, both on the ground and in ...

Over the weekend, astronomers and space enthusiasts everywhere caught a glimpse of SpaceX’s recently launched Starlink satellites in the sky. They’re the first 60 spacecraft of nearly 12,000 the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity ...