What are the Van Allen belts? Learn how these giant rings of charged particles cause problems for astronauts and satellites.

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

Middle school students in Salt Lake City are slipping on headsets and stepping into outer space— all without leaving the classroom.At Glendale Middle School, e ...

One of the world’s leading space powers, China, is developing a new robotic defense system for its Tiangong space station.

Radiation protection: The material of the suit also shields the astronauts from dangerous solar and cosmic radiation outside ...

IMDB says Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman to travel beyond Earth to film first "Hollywood motion picture in outer space." ...

Could cosmic radiation from space be quietly altering the DNA of Earth’s wildlife? Some scientists believe these high-energy rays may be behind strange mutations seen in animals across the globe.

“I miss cooking for my family, but this hits the spot in its own way,” he wrote in his tweet. Kim has been on the spacecraft ...

A small piece of outer space recreated in a basement in Glasgow could help future missions. Researchers at the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering have built the NextSpace Testrig ...

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers emerged around 9 a.m. Thursday, May 1 for the fifth-ever all-female spacewalk.