The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

But in space or on the Moon, there are no power lines, no sunlight at night and no backup grid. Every system — from life ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...