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Man's best friend will likely follow his master anywhere --even to Mars. NASA recently released an artist's perspective of the first Mars inhabitants from Earth, and it includes a dog dressed in his own spacesuit.

The word Supermoon came into popular use in 2011, where three Supermoons in a row graced the night sky. Shown here is the central one from that year, observed over Munich, Germany.

By Donna Lu. Killing bacteria in space is surprisingly hard. Previous missions have been plagued by bacterial biofilms that have coated surfaces and corroded equipment.

Extreme spaceflight conditions can force these bacteria to toughen up, while simultaneously lowering the immune defenses of the stressed, isolated crew.

Soyuz rockets stand ready to deliver astronauts to space if US manned spacecraft development is delayed, Roscosmos said, after NASA announced plans to purchase additional seats onboard the Russian spacecraft.

HOUSTON - To Kirby Runyon, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the small distant object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past on the first day of this year reminds him of monkey bread.

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS--It was largely buried in the detailed budget justification for 2020 that NASA released today, but it didn't take long for eagle-eyed scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference here to dig it up: NASA's next flagship ...

On Dec. 18, 2018, a school bus-size meteor exploded over Earth with an impact energy of roughly 10 atomic bombs. According to NASA, the blast was the second-largest meteor impact since the organization began tracking them 30 years ago, bested only by ...

In the movies, regeneration is the stuff of superheroes like Deadpool, who regrew the lower half of his body through some seriously awkward transitional scenes.

The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of Ultima Thule - the Kuiper Belt object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past on New Year's Day, four billion miles from Earth.

Skygazers are set for a treat this week when the third and final supermoon of the year occurs. The celestial event follows February's 'super snow moon' and January's stunning 'super blood moon' eclipse.

Skywatchers might want to have their telescopes handy this week when an asteroid twice the size of the one that exploded above Russia back in 2013 flies by Earth on Thursday night.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas - Less than three months after the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past a distant, cold space rock, scientists are beginning to piece together the story of how that object, nicknamed Ultima Thule, came to be.

Female twins who shared a womb with a brother tend to get less education, earn less money, and have fewer children than girls who shared a womb with another girl, according to an analysis of hundreds of thousands of births over more than a decade.

Women who have a male twin are less likely to graduate from high school than those born with a female twin, according to a study. Scientists studied all 13,717 twins born in Norway between 1967 and 1978 to understand whether being a woman born with a ...

The fireball exploded over the Bering Sea, which - if you squint - you can see here in an image taken by a Japanese weather satellite.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology; Daw-An Wu, California Institute of Technology, and Joseph Kirschvink, California ...

Is it possible that human beings have a sense of direction hidden somewhere inside their brains that is attuned to the earth's magnetic fields?

For some creatures, the magnetic field that hugs our planet serves as a compass for navigation or orientation. Migratory birds, sea turtles and certain types of bacteria are counted among the species with this built-in navigation system.

A new analysis of people's brain waves when surrounded by different magnetic fields suggests that people have a “sixth sense” for magnetism.