Astronauts in low-Earth orbit have received far more cosmic radiation than people on Earth, and there are concerns that it could be damaged by DNA offspring. Rat research provides the strongest clue that this is…

The region around the sun where the solar wind applies its energy is known as the heliosphere but the name is misleading. We have known for a long time that its shape is not round,…

Astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Shane Kimbrough of the United States spacewalked outside the International Space Station to begin the laborious process of installing new solar panels to supplement the orbital outpost’s deteriorating power…

The first astronauts for China’s new space station took off for the country’s longest crewed mission to date, marking a watershed moment in the country’s emergence as a major space power. In a much-anticipated blast-off…

The New York Times accidentally published an article claiming that the presence of watermelons on Mars had been confirmed. The piece appeared on their site yesterday under the headline “Field of watermelons on Mars, tell…

A new study simulated 25,000 scenarios of black holes and neutron stars colliding, with the goal of determining how many would be detectable by instruments on Earth in the mid- to late-2020s. The researchers discovered…

Most galaxies contain black holes that are so massive — up to several billion times the mass of our sun — that they have earned the moniker “supermassive.” Compare this to a typical stellar-mass black…

Millions of people from the eastern US traveled all the way from Europe to Russia and China. Today, June 10, a solar eclipse was caught across Canada, Greenland, the Arctic, and Russia. Known as the…

Tensions between the United States and Russia continue to rise, so it is not surprising that they have now spread beyond the world. After all, the place has been an arena of national competition and…

The new space race is getting excited in multiple different ways. It’s not just a race to shoot the first commercial film in space, it’s a real competition to see if the billionaires of a…