Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers ...

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Scientists have explained everything that might happen to the two 'stranded' NASA astronauts' bodies when they finally return ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Astronauts returning to Earth, such as Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, face a range of unusual physiological side effects ...

Northwestern University scientists have detected the first radio pulses that can be traced to a dead-star binary.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...