NASA says goodbye to Spitzer: See the telescope's most astounding images NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos since its launch on Aug. 25, 2003. Spitzer's ...

Toyota's annus horribilis can be traced, in part, to a rash of incidents where Toyota vehicles accelerated by themselves, causing drivers to lose control and crash. More than 100 deaths have been ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric temperatures ranging from 10,000 to 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first step on the moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips – and ...

The Artemis II crew will face intense radiation as the astronauts venture far beyond the protection of Earth. Nasa plans to keep these lunar pioneers safe from cosmic rays and solar flares.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cosmic radiation could be a boon for subsurface life on worlds such as Europa (left), Mars (center) and Enceladus (right), ...

Accelerated to high energies, the particles making up cosmic rays aren’t exactly friendly to life. At least, not to life as we know it. According to a new theory, they could spark a chain of reactions ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...

Life on Mars sounds like something from a "Doctor Who" episode. But a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology challenges the science fiction notion of that idea. The research ...

(Phys.org)—During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's ...