Every day, the Earth spins once around its axis, making sunrises and sunsets a daily feature of life on the planet. It has done so since it formed 4.6 billion years ago, and it will continue to do so ...

Somewhere deep below Saturn s cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven extremely complicated. Now, with new Cassini results, a team ...

If you look around space, you'll notice a lot of things — the planets, stars, moons, even the galaxy itself — have one thing in common: they're spinning. So, is the universe spinning, too? This ...

MANHATTAN — In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has generated significant and unprecedented insights into the far reaches of space, and a new study by a Kansas ...

You might feel inclined to believe that larger, denser galaxies rotate significantly more slowly than smaller, lighter ones. On the other hand, research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the ...

HOUSTON – After several months working aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Suni Williams will come back to Earth aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, targeted for launch June 8. That ...

The Gateway Foundation released its concept for the world's first rotating space station. The new idea looks like it is from a popular sci-fi movie such as "Star Trek" or "Star Wars." Gateway ...

Brown dwarfs are often called “failed stars.” They form like stars but are not massive enough to fuse hydrogen into helium as stars do. More like giant planets, brown dwarfs can often have storms in ...

Taking advantage of a weather delay for NASA's next space station flight, SpaceX fired off another 23 Starlink internet satellites Thursday in a hazy leap day launch from the Cape Canaveral Space ...

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts blasted off from Kazakhstan Friday and docked with the International Space Station after a two-orbit chase, the first step in a record crew rotation ...