Diana Hernandez is performing research using data from a sun-orbiting space probe as an undergraduate sophomore. It is an impressive job for a student who only recently completed her first ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

Space is an increasingly crowded place thanks to the constant influx of new satellites, and it’s only to get more cramped as the cost to reach orbit falls. Those dynamics have brought attention to ...

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The Federal University of Technology, FUT Minna, Niger State, has secured a N1billion Tetfund Agricultural Farm Grant. The Vice Chancellor, Faruk Kuta, made this known on Monday during a press ...

As Ars reported last week, NASA’s plan to replace the International Space Station with commercial space stations is running into a time crunch. The sprawling International Space Station is due to be ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit because of problems with an experimental capsule, has retired after 27 years, NASA said Tuesday. Williams ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — To meet the rising threats in missile defense and the space domain, the U.S Army is now accepting applications for its newest military occupational specialty, or MOS.

Can a social media-famous trainspotter become an astronaut? Erm, no. And it’s far from the best use of this hugely genuine, witty personality Mission to Space With Francis Bourgeois is a tricksy ...

Earlier this month, NASA announced that it had to cancel a scheduled spacewalk, citing a “medical situation” affecting a “single crew member who is stable” on board the International Space Station.

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...