A strange object, ASKAP J1935+2148, baffles scientists. It emits radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes. Australian and NASA telescopes spotted it. The object is 15,000 light-years away. It ...

An Orion capsule, above, built by Lockheed Martin developed cracks inits aft bulkhead after pressure testing. The capsule will haveto be repaired before a scheduled unmanned spaceflight in 2014.

It also features a dense region known as the central bar. Our solar system lies on a more modest structure called the Orion spur. However tangled the question of our metaphorical place in the ...

The Sun circles the hub of our Milky Way just as a planet circles a star. It orbits about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, on the Orion Spur that shoots off from the Sagittarius ...