Among the most fascinating phenomena are gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. Recently, ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

Laika was a Russian dog who was sent on a one-way trip into space and has become a symbol for the use of animals in ...

Breaking space ... Earth. This is the aforementioned desert, and one theory is that as Neptune-size worlds rich in gas and ice migrate inwards towards their star, stellar radiation blows their ...

Here is how death in space would be handled today: If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission – such as aboard the International Space Station – the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule ...

The ISS has had to dodge space debris multiple times over the years, and the ESA now estimates that intact objects reenter Earth’s atmosphere more than three times per day. The growing number of ...

Rocket launches can create eerie patterns in the sky, from undulating bright-blue spirals to glowing “jellyfish” blobs.

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

Multiple residents across Northern California have reached out to KCRA 3 after seeing an object that looks like a meteor ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

While the POEM-4 was in orbit, it was continuously tracked by ISROs Radar Facilities and United States Space Command ...

What will the Fram2 crew do in space? Wang and his crew will conduct ... to ensure the Dragon will have a safe trip back into Earth’s atmosphere. When the astronauts make their water landing ...