Back in April, the White House issued a challenge to scientists to develop a lunar time standard to support future moon bases ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

With President-elect Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO/newly-minted efficiency czar Elon Musk looking on, SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket today on its sixth test flight — a ground-shaking ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has ... surface of the Moon in 1969 with the ...

Samantha Harvey, author of "Orbital," took home the award Tuesday. The book focuses on a single day in the life of the ...

The full moon will arrive Nov. 15, 2024, at 4:28 p.m. ET. As the chill of November sets in, embrace the energy of the final supermoon in a rare series of three, known as the full beaver moon — a ...

Harvey’s win comes in the immediate wake of the terrible floods in Spain. The Booker press release describes Orbital as “a book about a wounded world” and cites its win in “a year of ...

This year’s Booker Prize winner, Orbital by Samantha Harvey, which dramatises a day onboard the International Space Station (ISS), 250 miles above Earth, falls decidedly in the latter tradition. “The ...

Samantha Harvey was the only British author on the shortlist, and she won for her 136-page gem, “Orbital” (only one ... gull flies by at what seems like speed. The gull is blurred while ...

“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes ...