NASA concept illustration of Artemis astronauts working on the lunar surface. The image is artwork, not a photograph of a current Moon base. Image: NASA. When Mauritius signed the Artemis Accords on ...

NOAA diagram of the ocean's light zones: the euphotic zone to 200 metres, the dysphotic zone from 200 to 1,000 metres, and the aphotic zone below 1,000 metres. Credit: NOAA National Ocean Service.

Dennis Hope walked into a county clerk’s office in 1980 and filed a claim of ownership over the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Io, and every other solid body in the solar system except Earth. He was ...

There’s a small puzzle in the most famous photograph Voyager 1 ever took. The spacecraft looked back at Earth, caught it as a speck of light, and just 34 minutes later stopped seeing anything at all.

A small red star is pulling gas from a brown dwarf as the pair circles every 87 minutes, packed into an orbit that could fit inside the Sun. Material strikes the star’s surface and lights up a hot ...

The wider cultural register has, on the available evidence, a particular list of films that it tends to associate with realistic depictions of space. The list, when pressed, will produce Gravity, ...

The Interislander ferry between Wellington and Picton carries tourists, freight trucks, and commuters across a stretch of the Cook Strait most of them assume is just water between two New Zealand ...

Representative image. Photo by Enes Sözen on Pexels. A night-migrating robin can choose a seasonally appropriate direction inside a featureless cage even when stars and landmarks are unavailable.

A Redstone-Sparta rocket being prepared for launch at Woomera, South Australia. Photo: US Army, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States. On 28 November 1967, at the Woomera rocket ...

NASA visualisation of the universe's present-day mass-energy budget, rounded to 5 per cent visible matter, 27 per cent dark matter and 68 per cent dark energy. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

When Voyager 2 flew past Neptune’s largest moon in the summer of 1989, its active, geyser-like plumes became what JPL called the most surprising find of the encounter. That matters beyond one moon. If ...

This article is preserved from an earlier Space Daily editorial era. It has not been substantively reviewed under our current standards. The growth in government spending on space may surpass US$50 ...