NASA says it's still deciding whether to keep two astronauts at the International Space Station until early next year and send their troubled Boeing capsule back empty.
For almost two months, Earth will joined by a new mini-moon in it's gravitational orbit.
Axiom Space, the space company NASA chose to develop a private successor to the International Space Station, is in big trouble. As Forbes reports, the startup is struggling to pay the bills and has laid off hundreds of employees, while cutting the pay of those who remain. Axiom Space's plan to develop a module […]
Detectors inside Artemis I’s Orion capsule show how much radiation exposure its mannequins underwent and how effective a “storm shelter” inside the capsule could be.
The legendary masterpiece is much more than just a beautiful painting.
NASA announced on September 18 their James Webb Space Telescope had captured another collision between two galaxies. The region of space is called Arp 107, the image shows an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy in the middle of merging hundreds of millions of years ago.
LONDON (AP) — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source.
Rocket Lab was set Wednesday to launch an Electron rocket with a payload of five satellites into space, but the mission was aborted at the last moment.
Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due to time-dilation effects. Here's how it works.
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy.
British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct. The team from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) used lasers to inscribe the data on a 5D crystal, which they said can survive for billions of years. In a statement, the university described the crystal - equivalent to fused quartz - as one of the most "chemically and thermally durable materials on Earth".
Summer's final curtain call. Here's a guide to the science behind this phenomenon, some of its most enduring myths, and why this is the earliest fall equinox in over 2 centuries.
NASA has doled out billions to work with private companies on space hauls. It’s still unclear what value the space agency is getting for taxpayers’ money.
Earth's gravity will snag a new companion for September through November of this year as a newly discovered asteroid strays close enough to our planet to receive a special honour - a mini-moon designation.
'Hidden Figures' of the space race receive Congress' highest honor at medal ceremony
Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers who worked for NASA during the 20th-century space race were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill.
The settlement near Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire, was revealed after extensive evaluation work.
A witness got emotional recounting the day of the doomed Titan submersible dive while testifying Thursday during the U.S. Coast Guard's hearing into the deadly implosion. Renata Rojas, a banker who had previously gone on a dive to the Titanic on the experimental vessel, was volunteering and assisting the surface crew during the 2023 expedition when the submersible catastrophically imploded on a deep-sea voyage to the shipwreck site, killing five people, including OceanGate founder Stockton Rush. The hearing took an approximately 10-minute break on Thursday during Rojas' testimony so that she could compose herself before discussing the June 18, 2023, dive.
Earth is getting a temporary second "mini moon," a.k.a. the 2024 PT5 asteroid. Here's how you can see it and if it will affect your astrological star sign.
A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in his painting “The Starry Night.”
Left to nature, coral’s mating prospects are somewhat restricted by their inability to walk, fly or swipe Tinder to find a mate.
