Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launches two small spacecraft to Mars to study magnetic fields, solar wind and the risks and limits of lower-cost space science.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will return to New Orleans Dec. 15–19 with its annual meeting at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, ...

NASA’s TRACERS mission begins early science measurements in Earth’s southern polar cusp, tracking magnetic reconnection and ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Scientists are learning how to turn the chill of outer space into a quiet source of electricity, using the night sky itself as a heat sink. By carefully managing how surfaces shed heat after dark, ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Supernova PTF 11kly, a Type Ia supernova located 21 million light-years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), was detected within hours of its explosion, representing the closest such event observed in ...

The star causing this flare is not yet fully devoured: "Like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet." Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also ...

A new peer-reviewed study analysing a decade of African space science research has revealed that South Africa continues to ...