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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Millennium Space Systems completed the production of two spacecraft for a NASA science mission focused on unraveling the complexities of space weather events, the company announced Nov.

Helioseismology probes the Sun's interior by analyzing the waves that travel through it, while spectroscopy reveals the surface composition based on the spectral signature produced by each chemical ...

Last week Elon Musk said in one of his 100-plus daily tweets that “This is just a very basic first step. Earth and Mars will ...

GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. These satellites require a station on Earth to keep their ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...