Space

If NASA can spot a tiny exoplanet millions of miles away just by catching the momentary dip in brightness as it passes in front of a...

The number of objects orbiting the sun just increased by 50 percent, thanks to a group of scientists who just discovered 838 minor...

China's been working on a sizable new space station for several years, and assuming they don't run into more space station troubles...

While William Shatner is best known for portraying daring space captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, he has a tendency to end up in...

Do you think you have what it takes to be an astronaut? Are you no-nonsense and good at working alone? Because that won't help...

Alan Bean, an Apollo astronaut and artist who counted himself among the very few humans to ever walk on the Moon, has passed away this...

Astronomers around the world have been amping their search for planets in distant solar systems (especially NASA, who has the...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: an engine which could power a spacecraft without any fuel, relying simply on the vacuum...

Ice cores, long vertical samples taken from glaciers and ice sheets, can tell us a lot about the past — details in each individual...

Back in 2011, a Martian meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert. The official name of the 320-gram rock is Northwest Africa (NWA)...

NASA may be preparing a more advanced version of their Curiosity rover to launch in 2020, but ideally, they still want to keep the...

NASA has been dealing with fears over 'space madness' for decades, but in all those years, there have been a grand total of zero...

If you thought moons always look ours--white, cratered, and sphere-shaped--Saturn's inner moons prove otherwise: of its roughly 150...

Quasars are among the brightest and farthest objects we've found throughout the known universe, but we haven't found very many. So...

With everything SpaceX has done recently (several dozen successful rocket launches and a Tesla floating through space to show for it)...

Last year, the weird, needle-shaped interstellar asteroid Oumuamua zoomed through our solar system, marking the first time we've had a...

When the Orbital ATK Antares rocket launches from Virginia tomorrow, it'll send a fascinating new experiment up to the International...

Eventually, China plans to land a rover on the dark side of the Moon, a first expedition into a lunar frontier which has gone...

This Monday, May 21, 2018, will be business as usual for NASA as they launch another rocket carrying supplies to the International...

While Curiosity has been an effective Mars rover, both in what it's discovered and how it's become the anthropomorphized public face...