The movie myth perpetuated by classics like "Total Recall" (1990) and "Mission To Mars" (2000) is that exposure to the vacuum ...

A new study links the sun's 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near ...

The Sun won’t explode in a dramatic fireball, but its ending will still be pretty wild. In about 5 billion years, it will run ...

The Sun won’t explode in a dramatic fireball, but its ending will still be pretty wild. In about 5 billion years, it will run ...

Solar prominences are massive chunks of plasma floating above the Sun’s surface, which can cause dangerous solar eruptions.

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...

After beginning its journey to the moon after a dramatic trans-lunar injection, the four-strong crew of the Orion spacecraft ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The US military has always been part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The first astronauts were nearly all military pilots, and two of the four crew members set to ...

The fighting continues in the Middle East, and oil’s back on the move, as the clock ticks on President Donald Trump’s five-day deadline for resolving differences with Iran. That’s the backdrop for ...

The inner solar system may have formed differently from how we have long thought it must have. For decades, researchers have thought that the rocky planets formed from a single disc of dust and debris ...