Astronauts on ISS can face muscle loss in microgravity – a new ESA experiment may help
The European Space Agency (ESA) is exploring the idea of treating muscle loss in astronauts with brief electrical impulses.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is exploring the idea of treating muscle loss in astronauts with brief electrical impulses.
Finding more debris from stellar explosions will tell us about how heavy elements are distributed across the galaxy.
A new method to detect Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the universe could help measure cosmic distances more accurately.
Using atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mystery of dark matter in the lab.
Reference Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system and has been raging for hundreds of years. We explore the phenomenon in more detail here.
Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan moon rover was rerouted after it encountered a crater while exploring its new home.
The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 photographed a massive protostar lurking behind star-forming clouds of dust and gas in the constellation Ara.
The exploded guts of a supergiant star are giving up new secrets in a case of stellar CSI.
A flash of light on our solar system's gas giant has alerted space enthusiasts of an intriguing impact
Astronomers using NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite have found a "warm" Jupiter with the longest period ever seen with an alien world.
Here's why a black hole crashing into a neutron star belched out an odd gamma-ray burst.
Reference Fast radio bursts — fleeting blasts of energy that are brighter than entire galaxies — remain mysterious. Here's what we know (and don't know) about FRBs.
The sun has launched a surprise coronal mass ejection directly at Mars, which could spark auroras on the Red Planet and potentially erode part of Mars' remaining atmosphere when it hits on Sept. 1.
The storm intensified overnight and made landfall near Keaton Beach, Florida, on the morning of Aug. 30.
Search for life on Mars could be aided by investigating ancient fossils here on Earth.
Reference A supermoon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth in its orbit. 2023 will experience four supermoons.
The OSIRIS-REx team performed a crucial drop test on Wednesday (Aug. 30), practicing what they'll do when the mission's real asteroid sample comes home on Sept. 24.
Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida on Wednesday (Aug. 30) in view of both satellites and astronauts in space.
India's Pragyan moon rover photographed its mothership, the Vikram lander, for the first time as the two continue their exploration halfway through the Chandrayaan-3 mission.