Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Saturn has a fresh new look thanks to NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. The gas giant is ...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico—A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) above the ...

NEW YORK—Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes ...

An international team of astronomers from the University of Sydney, Australia, and the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy ...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has claimed that multiple senior government officials—including Pentagon employees with "high clearances"—are aware of ...

Four volunteers have been sealed into an isolated 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed structure made by NASA and will spend the ...

Tickets are on sale now for a ride to space aboard Sir Richard Branson's "spaceline," Virgin Galactic. The ...

NASA has said that a "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring the size of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge is projected ...

High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice ...

The UK government is planning to invest 4.3 million pounds in the space-based solar power industry that has ...

An Air Force veteran and former intelligence officer has come forward alleging that classified information about the government’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on ...

WASHINGTON—Scientists have expanded the search for technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations by monitoring a star-dense region toward the core ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth late Tuesday night ...

Japan is exploring ways to beam solar power from space, a project that's expected to be tested in ...

Veteran moonwalkers of the Apollo Program say that the United States needs to take space seriously as a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A private Japanese moon lander went into free-fall while trying to land on the lunar surface ...

WASHINGTON—It is a world wrapped in mystery—the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus, seen up close just once ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M—Virgin Galactic completed what is expected to be its final test flight Thursday before taking paying customers ...

WASHINGTON—Hidden below the brownish ammonia clouds blanketing Jupiter are clouds that like on Earth are made of water. ...

Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit will cease operations after its failed rocket launch out of the United ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two ...

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces the second lunar lander contractor for the Artemis V Moon Mission at 10:30 ...

The UK's first orbital rocket launch could blast off from the Shetland Islands this summer, as industry bosses ...