A relatively puny dark matter particle might be responsible for a gamma-ray glow at the centre of the Milky Way, says a pair of researchers – though others are sceptical

A skin-tight suit that compresses the body in the same way its own weight does on Earth could help future astronauts stave off bone loss

NASA has teamed up with craft website Etsy to celebrate the end of the space shuttle programme in homemade style

NASA has teamed up with craft website Etsy to celebrate the end of the space shuttle programme in homemade style

Soot from suborbital spaceships could melt ice at the poles, suggest the first detailed simulations of the climatic effects of space tourism

It looks like physics works differently in different places. If so, everything we think we know about the cosmos may be wrong

The planned Indian Neutrino Observatory will be made of 50,000 tonnes of magnetised iron buried beneath more than a kilometre of rock

New simulations of our corner of the cosmos suggest that dark matter might be warm, with relatively fast-moving and lightweight particles

A spacecraft that was crashed into the moon last year threw up debris that included not only water but also higher-than-expected amounts of silver

Light from a recently discovered galaxy has travelled for more than 13.1 billion years, making its source the most distant object known