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

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

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 ...

Repurposing existing satellite data to observe Earth's changes may open a floodgate of new climate and gravitational field ...

Light plays an important role in regulating our sleep/wake cycle, and our bodies are ultra-sensitive to it. As a result, the ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions of our time, with 12 ...

A new approach is unlocking hidden data from satellite mega-constellations to track Earth's changes in real time. By using ...