Jumping may protect astronauts’ knee cartilage from microgravity damage. Studies on mice show it increases bone density.

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

ispace's Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. It is taking an energy-efficient, circuitous route to the moon, and only ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

NASA says it's aware of an asteroid with a "very small chance" of hitting Earth in seven years. It's raised questions about what scientists could do to divert a threatening asteroid — and who would be ...

Evidence of this dissonance abounds. Go to any rock-crawling trail and you'll see evidence of fluid leaks, scrapes from ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying how ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the ...