Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

With only five years left at the complex, NASA is counting on private companies to launch their own orbiting stations with an ...

Study discovered that Chiron, a small icy world between Saturn and Uranus, is forming rings. This shows how small worlds ...

Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

The chains of modern slavery are not forged in iron; they arrive in your inbox or WhatsApp texts. They look like emails marked 'No Subject', dangling follow-ups ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

This video explains why planets in our solar system orbit in nearly the same plane, tracing their origins back to a rotating protoplanetary disc of dust and gas that formed around the young Sun. It ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...