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

D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment.

AM to bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Will Pichmore back from the International Space Station after their extended ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

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Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

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