Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and ...

high orbit around Earth by the Space Shuttle, Discovery, in April 1990. It orbits Earth every 95 minutes, travelling at a speed of 17,000 mph (or just over 27,000 km/h). Universe: the universe is ...

As you can see, Earth's rotation is relatively slow, whereas the Milky Way is barreling through space, traveling 600 kilometers (373 miles) every second. Normally, O'Donoghue said, people portray ...

A holiday photo of NASA astronaut Suni Williams has drawn concern — as she and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore’s return to ...

Flying through Earth’s orbit are thousands of satellites ... Meteoroids are small chunks of rock and metal that orbit the Sun. These space rocks can travel between 7 and 25 miles per second ...

Traveling to the moon is no easy feat. Our natural satellite orbits Earth at an average distance ... and it's still floating through space to this day. In 1969, when astronauts actually landed ...

After arriving back on Earth, he had to go through rigorous body testing ... step towards lowering the biomedical risk of space travel, which would help plan for future trips where astronauts ...

a person traveling through space at near lightspeed would age more slowly than all the other humans waiting back on Earth. This idea is exemplified in the twin paradox thought experiment.

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the Sun.

both for astronauts and for patients here on Earth," said Dr. Trudel. He sees the anaemia caused by space travel as being "similar" to that experienced by patients who've spent months inactive in ...