Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled the surprising resilience of certain bacteria, capable of surviving the harsh vacuum of space. This revelation not only shifts our understanding of microbial life but ...

A team of scientists and sustainability experts is calling on space organizations worldwide to transition to a more ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Space scientists have captured a never-before-seen cosmic spiral. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a jaw-dropping image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust. Observations taken ...

18 years ago, NASA lost an asteroid. Officially designated 2007 FT3, the Empire State Building-sized rock was tracked for around 24 hours before it slipped back into the solar system's darkness — and ...

The U.S. has entered a new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, ...

They might've looked something like the space station in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey." There once was a dream of cities in space — vast cylindrical habitats, self-sufficient and populated by ...

It started with a poster on the classroom board of William Heinen, a biology teacher at St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California, that called for all students to participate in a ...