NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore telescope has offered astronomers a detailed view of the star factory inside the Orion Nebula, one of the most famous and...
A team of researchers led by scientists at Tufts University sent a group of regular planarian flatworms into space, sealed in tubes half filled with water...
An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world’s lightest satellite, which will be put into orbit at a Nasa facility in the...
NASA’s Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite snapped a stunning photo of the Bering Strait during a recent trip across the narrow strip of water separating Alaska and Siberia....
Cassini is back in contact with Earth, having executed its first dive through a 1,500-mile-wide gap separating Saturn and its rings. The space probe emerged from...
Controllers and scientists must wait until Thursday to hear from Cassini. The probe was due early on Wednesday to make the first of 22 dives in...
A sizable asteroid will pass by Earth on Wednesday, according to astronomers. The asteroid, known as 2014 JO25, will come within 1.1 million miles of Earth,...
The galaxy NGC 4536 is churning out new stars at a prodigious rate, as evidenced by new images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The images,...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has a sibling — or a rivalry. Astronomers at the University of Leicester have discovered a second “great spot.” Scientists dubbed the...
Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into...
In the wake of a recent electromagnetic storm, NASA’s Van Allen Probes identified unique chemical reactions inside Earth’s magnetic field. The findings offered new insights into...