For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling 4.4gs in freefall back to ...

Human hearts could be grown in space to use in transplants and save lives on planet earth, British astronaut Tim Peake said.

This low-tech energy breakthrough could power the future. Gravity batteries store renewable energy using gravity—and they may ...

"Put simply, it is far more computationally effective to track and compute the location and momentum of a single object in ...

New research shows the blast triggered secondary gravity waves that rattled the upper atmosphere, where satellites orbit.

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Even if human Martians are given protective space suits and sturdy underground shelters, this radiation is likely to still take its toll. As such, cancer rates on Mars are likely to be higher on Mars, ...