It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory — formerly known as the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer — is in its final days. The space ...

Sometime around 3:30 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, November 4, give or take 11 hours, a 3,200-pound (1,450-kilogram) NASA observatory is expected to hit the thick lower layers of Earth’s atmosphere ...

Since February 1998 – when it surpassed the previous record-holder, NASA’s outer-planet explorer Pioneer 10 – Voyager 1 has been the farthest human-made object in existence. Even now, more than 48 ...

Sakurajima volcano erupting in Japan on 25 February 2013. (Richard Roscoe/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images) The Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption is one of the most destructive in history: Around 5250 BCE, ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will re-enter our atmosphere around 3:30AM Eastern time tomorrow, November 4, according to the US Armed Forces' predictions. The exact time could be different, as ...

Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will have "irreversible" consequences for glaciers, sea ice and the Earth's frozen regions, two UN reports warned on Monday, calling for urgent action.One of the ...

After plans to save it failed, NASA's Swift telescope is hurtling back to Earth. Here's how to keep track of it.

The observatory ended science operations in October as atmospheric drag pulled it lower. Its exact reentry time remains uncertain.

Since May, scientists have been watching sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean rise at unprecedented speeds. By some metrics, this El Niño is already considered the strongest on ...

Elon Musk predicts that future superintelligence computing will be entirely space-based, with companies like SpaceX and Google already exploring orbital data centre technologies.