Many people imagine the space between the stars as an empty, cold infinity. In reality, it is teeming with extraordinary ...

Scientists analyzing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

The goal is to have the first 30MW demonstrator operational by 2029, with plans to achieve full gigawatt-scale capacity in ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Middle school students in Salt Lake City are slipping on headsets and stepping into outer space— all without leaving the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. — A slew of satellites and a capsule were launched on the Bandwagon-3 on Monday night for a rare double-launch day for SpaceX. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi spoke with students from the ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.