The first step on the moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips—and ...
The terrifying plunge of a JetBlue flight bound for New Jersey has revived a question that sounds like science fiction but is ...
Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem.
Life on Mars sounds like something from a "Doctor Who" episode. But a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology challenges the science fiction notion of that idea. The research ...
A stream of high-energy particles from a distant supernova explosion may have caused a packed passenger jet to suddenly lose ...
Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...
Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...
High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...