Space travel's mental health toll could endanger long missions

A review of NASA research highlights the risk that prolonged social isolation poses to long-distance space…

Four extreme environments where humans are tasting life on Mars

Space agencies use some of Earth’s extreme habitats to fine-tune techniques for a trip to the…

‘Alien megastructure’ signal may be due to star eating a planet

Tabby’s star’s odd blinking and fading has been put down to alien signals and swarms of…

‘Alien megastructure’ signal may be due to star eating a planet

Tabby’s star’s odd blinking and fading has been put down to alien signals and swarms of…

Milky Way’s core could be spewing out planet-sized star chunks

The supermassive black hole at the galaxy's heart can stretch and shred stars that approach –…

Milky Way’s core could be spewing out planet-sized star chunks

The supermassive black hole at the galaxy's heart can stretch and shred stars that approach –…

Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions

The US space agency will send probes to metallic asteroid Psyche and the mysterious Trojans that…

Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions

The US space agency will send probes to metallic asteroid Psyche and the mysterious Trojans that…

Cosmic radio bursts tracked to home galaxy for first time

One repeating example of a fast radio burst has finally been pinned down to a tiny…

Four extreme environments where humans are tasting life on Mars

Space agencies use some of Earth’s extreme habitats to fine-tune techniques for a trip to the…