You may have heard people say that aboard the International Space Station (ISS) there's "zero gravity," but in fact, gravity is still very much present. The station orbits Earth at an altitude of ...

This ambipolar electric field is as fundamental to Earth as gravity and the magnetic field, and is the source of the flow of atmospheric ions into space known as the polar wind. For decades, ...

A team of researchers working on sustaining astronauts on future missions have turned their attention to watermeal. Though not much bigger than a pinhead, when put to the test, plant clusters could ...

Gravity reduces blood flow to the brain, and this reduced circulation may contribute to brain ageing. This is a new ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

A colossal comet, 3I/ATLAS, is making headlines as it streaks through our solar system at more than 124,000 miles per hour.

In Delhi, PM Narendra Modi met Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the pilot for the upcoming Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). In their interaction, Shukla described the ...

The Earth has got itself a new moon. The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times that ...