After the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, American astronaut Edward Lu had just nine weeks to learn how to fly the Soviet-era Soyuz spacecraft. That's no mean feat: most people take at least a year ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Earlier this week, a huge network of sinkholes suddenly opened up on a quiet residential street in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, swallowing a dump truck not far from the offices of Popular Mechanics. So, ...

NASA has revealed the failed Starliner test mission which left two astronauts stranded in space for nine months ranks alongside the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters as one of its most ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued a stark warning about 15,000 “city-killer” asteroids that could strike Earth at any time, highlighting a significant gap in global ...

In a stark and widely reported warning, NASA’s planetary defence chief has revealed that Earth currently has no reliable way to stop thousands of “cit.

NASA experts warned that human beings are vulnerable to thousands of hidden “city-killer” asteroids. A new space telescope may improve detection, but we currently lack tools to stop a threat., US Buzz ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

"This confirms that life's building blocks can be formed in a diversity of environments throughout the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...