In an effort to curb the spread of misinformation, Twitter will begin broadcasting local TV news alongside the timeline when tragedy strikes. The microblogging service tested the feature yesterday, ...

While the AVHRR instruments are calibrated before launch, their calibration changes in orbit, typically with a rapid change immediately after launch and then drifting during their ... as both colour ...

This isn't the only legal battle Nintendo has fought over an infuriating design flaw known to many as "Joy-Con drift," in which the joysticks wear down over time and begin to detect movement even ...

Not every large object in space forms part of a solar system. There are some big objects that exist in isolation in space, without either being a star or orbiting one. One of these, SIMP 0136 ...

“We hear almost everything,” my friend and NASA colleague, a program scientist for the International Space Station, told me over lunch one day. She was explaining various Mission Control ...

NASA astronauts like Peggy Whitson, Sunita Williams, and Scott Kelly have set records for the longest space missions on the ISS, contributing significantly to research and exploration. Their ...

Nine months in space, on a mission that was supposed to last just eight days—NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned to Earth. The duo left Earth in June 2024 to ...

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a variety of reasons over the decades of human spaceflight. By Claire Moses ...

katy perry really will be feeling like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, when she is in space, due to the lack of ...