Once aboard the Chinese Space Station (CSS), the Pakistani astronaut will conduct experiments in fields such as medical sciences, aerospace, physics, space radiation, ecology, and astronomy.

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Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit over 22,000 miles away.

When Jared Isaacman gave up his childhood dream of becoming a NASA astronaut, he still needed to get his adrenaline fix somewhere. He found it after dropping out of high school and building ...

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the lab, known as “plastic ice VII.” This strange version could exist ...

This means they could be silently drifting through space — and occasionally through Earth itself. So there’s a chance there could be lots of these small black holes throughout the universe.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. Dark energy ...