We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

This year’s Booker prize winner, Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ is no ordinary page-turner. It turns our gaze to the planet from ...

Booker prize for Orbital tells us how familiar the once-grand celestial has become. Space stories are now about human ...

The first photos of Earth sent back by the Apollo crews in the 1960s dramatically impressed us that our tiny blue planet rotating in space is precious and fragile. The ...

A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ... the sun compared with Earth, Neptune sits at the fringes ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

"Killer electrons" that travel at nearly light speed inside Earth's Van Allen belts—the zone that surrounds the planet and ...