NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Tuesday ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Astrophysicists estimate that any exponentially growing technological civilization has only 1,000 years until its planet will ...

Thunderstorms create a lot of wind, rain, and lightning, but many people aren’t necessarily aware of another common byproduct: gamma radiation. Thanks to a creative retrofit of an old U-2 spy plane ...

Because NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six months, this newly launched flight with two empty seats ...

Are we alone? One of the big questions that people would like to answer is whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe. Given the scale of the Universe, planetary scientists have tended to focus on ...

Nasa has picked up a "heartbeat" signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost contact with it billions of miles away from Earth, the space agency said. Last month, the spacecraft - exploring the ...

to catch the attention of an entire generation of teenagers whose first contact with both sci-fi franchises was 2004's Alien vs. Predator and some of the more modern video games. Xenomorphs led by ...

Around 100 million worlds in our galaxy could host alien life, according to a ‘conservative’ prediction by Nasa. The US space agency say we will be able to find that life within the next two ...

HAWTHORNE, Calif. — NASA on Friday cut two astronauts from the next crew to make room on the return trip for the two stuck at the International Space Station. NASA's Nick Hague and Russian Aleksandr ...

The switch in rides left it to NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov to retrieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Because NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six ...