Pulsating stars. Supernova explosions. Streaking asteroids. Far-off galaxies. Humankind recently saw the first stunning images of outer space taken by the world’s largest digital camera – and Florida ...

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How the smells of outer space could lead us to extraterrestrial life. Plus, an ancient ‘ambidextrous’ protein that can function in both mirror-image forms and the month’s best science images. How the ...

The effects of antigravity are hair-raising — and hair-graying. When US astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams touched back down to Earth after their prolonged nine-month stint in outer ...

Total solar eclipses are rare, but exactly how rare is now up for debate after the European Space Agency debuted the first images today (June 16) from two new satellites that together operate as an ...