The effects of long-term stays in space can be negative on a number of biological systems, and this mission should help us to ...

The weak spot, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, was identified in the 19th century and expanded in recent years.

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

When viewed through the lens of spaceflight history, the International Space Station (ISS) is one of humanity's most ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

Space, as far as physics is concerned, is a soundless place. There is no air, no wind, no whisper — only vacuum. And yet, on ...

As the U.S. government shutdown halts NASA updates, a JAXA astronaut's photos show that work continues on the space station.

China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s, a ...

A major milestone has been achieved by NASA and SpaceX. The organizations involved in space exploration and aeronautics research have successfully elevated the orbit of the International Space Station ...

UC San Diego’s reach doesn’t stop at Earth’s atmosphere. Our astronauts have walked in space, our scientists have tested ...

Chamath Palihapitiya warns of global grid deficiency; Bezos envisions a future where AI data centers orbit Earth, powered by ...