The beaver moon, of course, is named for the animal itself. Beavers are the largest living rodents in North America and are ...

LONDON (AP) — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.

Meteors that fall to Earth are also often called “shooting stars” and are a common occurrence, according to NASA. While some ...

Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Dr. Munmun Chattopadhyay, a faculty scientist at Texas Tech Health El Paso and a member of the team working in Earth-based ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

Space weather refers to the environmental effects that originate from outside our atmosphere (mostly the Sun). It affects us on Earth in a variety of noticeable and unnoticeable ways. The most obvious ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

NASA has completed the twin satellites it will launch next year to study the solar wind and its impact on Earth. The Tandem ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...