Shubhanshu Shukla recalled being cautious about releasing objects in his initial days on the station. “I had this strange ...

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Space agencies and private companies already have advanced plans to send humans to Mars in the next few years – ultimately colonising it. And with a growing number of discoveries of Earth-like planets ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without ...

Lána Salmon is actively seeking gravitational wave sources in space and helping to build Ireland’s first satellite. She spoke to Dr Claire O’Connell. When Lána Salmon started her PhD in astrophysics ...

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Jenny Lehmann is an assistant editor at Discover Magazine who writes articles on microbiology, psychology, neurology, and zoology, and oversees the Piece of Mind column of the print issue. View Full ...