M iles upon miles overhead, there is a field in the atmosphere that shields the Earth from space energies that could be ...

How does a compass work in space? From the moon to Venus, here’s how a compass would work beyond Earth’s magnetic field.

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon ...

A private spacecraft on a pretty badass mission has sent back footage of the far side of the Moon, on its way to land in the ...

A nearby supernova that peppered the Earth with cosmic rays 2-3 million years ago has been blamed for an upsurge in viruses ...

Scientists using old flyby data from NASA's Galileo mission have found stronger evidence that Jupiter's moon Callisto has an ...

The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other ...

Firefly Aerospace, a Cedar Park-based spacecraft manufacturer, has scored a nearly $22M deal with the Space Force to launch a ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

NASA launched a quintet of satellites to figure out the science behind Earth's most colorful auroras. The mission was titled ...