SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ninth space station ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems recently announced the development of a multijunction photovoltaic cell with 44.7% e...

  Jupiter’s signature Great Red Spot is sort of the Doctor Who of storms: It just won’t die — even when it has been proven that it  mu...

Microgravity A comparison between the combustion of a candle on Earth (left) and in a microgravity environment, such as that found on th...

Los Angeles:  A NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter will swing by Earth to get the boost it needs to arrive at the giant gas planet in 20...

Sixty years ago, A. Scott Crossfield, a talented young engineering research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (N...

In the most alarming, and science fiction-sounding, news you’re likely to hear for a while: the Sun’s polarity is about to flip upside d...

Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering The Chang’e 3 lunar lander and moon rover is part of the second phase of China’s t...

  Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determin...

Humanity's long-held dream of putting boots on Mars may become reality soon. A number of organizations, both public and p...