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

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

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 ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

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

She's working toward a master's degree in physics at Marshall University and serves as a NASA Solar System Ambassador, ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

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

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

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

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...