Scientists found that colorful pigments in Earth’s cloud microbes may help telescopes identify signs of life on distant ...

This engine won't be fueling interstellar missions, but still finds an unexpected way to use deep space energy to generate ...

For low Earth orbit satellites, the delay is measured in milliseconds. For lunar missions, it stretches into seconds and, for Mars, into minutes. This latency cannot be eliminated, but it can be ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have cautioned.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

China conducts ground tests on inflatable, reconfigurable space manufacturing module A Chinese institute recently completed ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.