Space

New Horizons has already broken new ground and made headlines with its first-ever close-up photos of Pluto and even found evidence for...

After carrying out several successful deliveries to the International Space Station, SpaceX is poised to become the first private...

Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered which ones are already dead? It's common knowledge that it can take starlight a long...

Between drafting plans to protect Earth from giant asteroids, laying the groundwork for the Deep Space Gateway, and testing a new...

Every good space crew needs a great astrogator. Charting a course through stars and debris fields is a lot harder than driving...

According to NASA, the announcement of the Orion marked the first time in a generation that NASA had unveiled a spacecraft built for...

While NASA's OSIRIS REx mission heads to the asteroid Bennu and JAXA's Hayabusa2 investigates Ryugu, another asteroid has decided to...

Let's face it: most of us will never get the opportunity to go to space. Space tourism is on the way in the near future, but unless...

The best way to learn something new about an object is to get up close and personal with it. Scientists know a fair bit about...

If Chris Hadfield's recording sessions aboard the ISS didn't impress you, how about a zero-gravity tennis throwdown? Yesterday, NASA...

It took a little over three months, but NASA is reporting that its $830 million InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic...

Scientists have speculated about the existence of water (especially ice) on Earth's Moon for years, and recent studies of meteorites...

In a post on Facebook this past weekend, NASA's Meteor Watch group shared information about a fireball that lit up parts of Alabama...

When people hear the phrase "water world," their first thought is often a long-repressed memory of that Kevin Costner...

China is attempting the world's first-ever mission to the dark side of the Moon. We've known about China's newest lunar mission for a...

It's easy to look at Jupiter's 63 moons and feel a little left out: Earth has only one moon and – although it's pretty nice –...

The exoplanet KELT-9b is hot. Extremely hot. Almost star-level hot. For comparison, the hottest planet in our solar system, Venus,...

They say big things come in small packages, right? Astronomers didn't think that sentiment would apply to a small package like Fornax...

Right now, there's a life-or-death drama going on in one of NASA's control rooms as scientists and technicians desperately wait for a...

The Space Force doesn't officially exist yet, but they may already have their hands full dealing with Russia. Reuters reports that...