In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...

Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...

a dense slap of plasma from the Sun had reached out and "squashed" the planet’s magnetospheres in a rare space weather event.

It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ – about a single day in space – has scooped this year’s prize, but Martin Chilton is sceptical ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

The answer it seems is Mars. When Musk was setting up SpaceX back in 2001, he told the founding team his dream was to ‘send ...

The firm's video, originally published in 2017, depicts a near-future where a swarm of people board a boat in the Hudson ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...