The HEXAGON KH-9 reconnaissance satellites were the largest and last U.S. intelligence satellites to return photographic film ...

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

Israel launched one of its most intense bombardments against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon this year Thursday, hours after the ...

The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft recently made a close flyby of Mercury, and it snapped some stunning pictures along the way.

Astronomers are struck by images of the Whirlpool Galaxy not ... 13 million light years from Earth. Unseen, in the middle of it all, is a supermassive black hole with as much mass as 55 million ...

The United States has one of its six West Coast-based aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific Ocean again ...

Lord of the Rings’ palantíri may seem like regular fantasy crystal balls, full of evil influence, but they weren’t always ...

Clear images of flashing lightning are rarely taken from orbit around Earth because the phenomenon is normally obscured by ...

New research suggests that soil erosion is making floods more deadly in desert areas and warns against the rising risks to ...

Their research suggests that the central hubs, or "megaforts," of the Early to Middle Bronze Age civilization ... The researchers used historical imagery from Google Earth and satellite data ...

Stunning photos show rare partial lunar eclipse of supermoon which was spotted across UK skies - The supermoon was most ...

Mounting an urgent mpox vaccination campaign in Africa is crucial, write Gavin Yamey, Marco Schäferhoff, and Shingai ...