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The debris entered Earth’s atmosphere at a steep angle ... citing Article 7 of the United Nations Outer Space Treaty, which ...

The climate-damaging vapours left behind by jet planes could be easily tackled, aviation experts say, with a new study ...

Astronaut Suni Williams, of Needham, said she has been working out in space, and she credits that and being in space to ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

Degen, whose art accompanied the beloved stories written by Joanna Cole, also authored and illustrated children’s classics ...

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

If Earth's astronomical observatories were to pick up a signal from outer space, it would need an all-hands-on-deck effort to ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...

A dazzling fireball that illuminated the night sky over multiple U.S. states this weekend was captured on camera and has been identified as a SpaceX Starlink satellite making its fiery return to Earth ...