On Earth, we’d use one second as the known ... It also establishes the 2-dimensional galactic plane—the plane in which the majority of our disc-shaped galaxy's mass lies.

Virgin Galactic has unveiled its Delta spaceship. It is designed to fly more frequently than its predecessor with more passengers. Credit: Virgin Galactic ...

The star-forming clouds are rising far above the plane of the galaxy and then back ... And that might have been an interesting time for life on Earth. These star-forming regions have more than ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Footage shows passengers on Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight unbuckling their seatbelts and floating around, experiencing zero-gravity. For the first time, a mother and daughter headed ...

An earlier prototype of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane crashed during a test flight ... aeronautics body as defining the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space. "New Shepard was designed ...

Aboard the flight were four Yunyao-1 commercial meteorological ... camera to capture remote sensing imagery of the Earth. Galactic Energy is one of the early successes from China's commercial ...

Virgin Galactic is on track to embark on its fifth ... Additionally, they will have a rare opportunity to gaze upon the Earth from a vantage point in the suborbital position.

Galactic cosmic rays (GCR) are always bombarding Earth’s atmosphere ... A commercial jet plane comes in for a landing at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida.