Cancer becomes far more dangerous when it stops being confined to one place.

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study ...

Nothing like the controlled disassembly of BepiColombo has ever been attempted in such a harsh environment as the region of ...

Divers scraped the bottoms of 18 solar floats in the North Sea and found the ocean had furnished them with starfish, sea ...

Our future in space will require immense industry and infrastructure as we colonize out solar system and beyond. But how will ...

While humanity has already sent probes out of the solar system, none are flying to another star. That is set to change within this decade.

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

Seattle-area nonprofit group kicks off a campaign to raise $15 million and solicit bids for a milestone interstellar mission.

During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to sophisticated simulations using thousands of different starting points. A ...

Forty-seven years ago U.S. President Jimmy Carter stood grinning in front of a set of 32 bulky solar panels. It was 1979, and the oil crisis had sent fuel costs skyrocketing. Carter, in response, was ...