Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.

How sounds from humanity were transmitted into outer space as a message. The College Football Playoff committee 'really ...

Why is NASA so worried about space microbes? How much damage could an extra-terrestrial microorganism do here on Earth? And ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...

A national research team led by University of Alberta space physicist Ian Mann is developing a Canadian satellite mission ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...

Each rocket launch sends valuable materials that cannot be recovered into outer space and emits large amounts of greenhouse ...