Astronomers have identified a rare and unusually fast asteroid racing through the inner solar system. Known as 2025 SC79, the object is only the second ever found with an orbit entirely within Venus’s ...

Explore how space solar power and satellite energy could beam clean, continuous electricity from orbit to Earth, examining ...

In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...

In late November, a Cessna turboprop aircraft flying at an altitude of 5,000 meters performed an impressive world-first demonstration. Flying over Pennsylvania, the small airplane wirelessly beamed ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

For the second time in its mission so far, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of a comet. Predicted in advance by astronomers at University College London, UK, the ...