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 ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

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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.

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

Astronauts returning to Earth, such as Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, face a range of unusual physiological side effects ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

Light plays an important role in regulating our sleep/wake cycle, and our bodies are ultra-sensitive to it. As a result, the ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...