When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

NASA is preparing to launch a new space ... for planets that could be hosting alien life, or might have had aliens in the ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is its magnetic field. According to measurements taken by Voyager 2 when the ...

Such a visit likely would have shown that the Uranus magnetosphere is similar to those of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the ...

While we wait for the next Mass Effect game, ex-BioWare devs have teamed up with other AAA talent to create new space RPG ...

A's new position, as celestial mechanics indicate that the probability it arrived there due to accidental drift is negligible ...

Electrons travel at nearly light speed inside Earth’s Van Allen belts and pose a major threat to satellites and space equipment. Image Courtesy LANLLANL NEWS RELEASE“Killer electrons” that ...

A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying ...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...

Apophis, which is scheduled to fly by Earth on April 13, 2029, is a massive ‘city-killer’ roughly the size of the Empire ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...