Origami cranes are also an international symbol for peace, hope and healing. In 2011, when a powerful earthquake hit Japan, ...

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been in space for nine months, Frank Rubio was in orbit for over a year ...

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Scientists have explained everything that might happen to the two 'stranded' NASA astronauts' bodies when they finally return ...

One expert said the International Space Station doesn't exactly smell pleasant and explained why smells linger.

Imagine the solar system's planets throwing a Bollywood dance party. Each planet has its unique dance move. Mercury moves ...

New theory posits black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time itself, back into ...

Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...