The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of ...

A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week ...

Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Black excels at packaging science for lay readers, weaving illuminating natural history into sparkling descriptions of what ...

The chef said she was demonstrating “what some scientists think could have been nature’s recipe for life on this Earth, and perhaps life in the rest of the universe.” Child was re-creating ...

For example, Newspaper Rock, in Southeast Utah, boasts depictions of clan symbols ... Like pages in a book, petroglyphs can ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

This year is on course to be the hottest on record, with an average global surface temperature more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. But there is some better news: the overall amount of ...

Like his counterpart in the DC Universe — who was born beneath the red sun of the doomed planet Krypton and developed super powers by absorbing the solar energy of Earth’s yellow sun ... so much of ...

This wonderful children’s book invites readers of all ages and from every corner of the planet into the heart of a culture ...