Imagine floating outside a spacecraft on a routine spacewalk when something goes terribly wrong. Your helmet suddenly comes ...

According to a study published today in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team successfully pinpointed a type of sugar called erythrulose inside a molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way galaxy ...

A NASA astronaut shared a photograph from the ISS showing the full Moon against space and Earth's curved edge. The image drew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right above you is the sky – or as scientists would call it, the atmosphere. It extends about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the ...

Sugars are crucial components of RNA and DNA, the basis of all known organisms alive today. In a new study, the sugar ...

As the UK wraps up its year as the chair of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Co-ordination Committee, KATE ARKLESS GRAY asks how close are we to making space inaccessible?

Ever have one of those days when you're invaded by strange metallic objects from beyond our planet?

Filmmaker Ido Mizrahy was fascinated by space travel isolation from a young age, inspired and awed by science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and the original Solaris. And he ...