British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with ''Orbital,'' a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.

Samantha Harvey was awarded the prize for what she has called a 'space pastoral' about six astronauts circling the Earth, ...

Her fifth novel Orbital, has received critical praise, and takes place on one day when six astronauts aboard the ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it happened.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

Centrepoint's little sister was realised by the same architect and developer and built with similar pioneering techniques.

A striking image taken from the International Space Station reveals the Erg Chebbi dunes in southeastern Morocco, part of the ...

If Earth's astronomical observatories were to pick up a signal from outer space, it would need an all-hands-on-deck effort to decipher the extraterrestrial message. A father-daughter team of citizen ...

Arriving at the Paris Gare de Lyon station ... The real star of the show, however, was the table. It was the largest table I ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

The interior design of a restaurant can elevate the mood, encourage conversation and even influence how diners enjoy their ...