SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ninth space station ...

Humanity's long-held dream of putting boots on Mars may become reality soon. A number of organizations, both public and p...

Sixty years ago, A. Scott Crossfield, a talented young engineering research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (N...

  Jupiter’s signature Great Red Spot is sort of the Doctor Who of storms: It just won’t die — even when it has been proven that it  mu...

In the most alarming, and science fiction-sounding, news you’re likely to hear for a while: the Sun’s polarity is about to flip upside d...

The dwarf planet Ceres releases water vapour from two locations, scientists say Water spewing from icy volcanoes or ice patches ...

A Soyuz-Fregat rocket carrying the European Space Agency's galaxy-mapping Gaia probe launches from French Guiana on Dec. 19, 2013...

The Sun is racing through the Galaxy at a speed that is 30 times greater than a space shuttle in orbit (clocking in at 220 km/s with r...

Echoes of Supernova Fireworks marked the solar system's birth, and we have found echoes of one of the blasts. The oldest kno...

Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering The Chang’e 3 lunar lander and moon rover is part of the second phase of China’s t...