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 ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems recently announced the development of a multijunction photovoltaic cell with 44.7% e...

  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...

Microgravity A comparison between the combustion of a candle on Earth (left) and in a microgravity environment, such as that found on th...

Los Angeles:  A NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter will swing by Earth to get the boost it needs to arrive at the giant gas planet in 20...

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

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...

  Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determin...

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...

London: An engineering firm is planning to install a 6,800 mile 'solar belt' around the moon's equator to make it into a gi...