This redefined shooting star. It’s not just spacecraft that are impacted by the horrors of deep space. In October, 15 people ...

Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing ...

A stream of high-energy particles from a distant supernova explosion may have caused a packed passenger jet to suddenly lose ...

At the center of this achievement is the Photoelectric Feedback Discharge model, a complex simulation tool created to describe how lightning arises from the frenzied interaction of fields and ...

The first step on the moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips—and ...

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While the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens were butting heads and other body parts a couple of Sundays ago, they were simultaneously taking a whole different type of pounding, though they ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

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 ...

Astronomers link an X-ray nebula to a pulsar-powered PeVatron, offering major clues to the origins of galactic cosmic rays.