Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between ...

The airbase at Cape Canaveral in Florida, which launched the first ever U.S. astronaut, has been redesignated as ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station ...

After a six-year mission and a flight of hundreds of millions of kilometres, a Japanese space capsule has ...

South Australia's outback is set to make history as the landing pad for a Japanese space capsule containing ...

SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has bolstered space sector ambitions with the appointment of Virgin Galactic's Chief Operating Officer ...

The largest amount of astronomical chemical data ever collected on the Milky Way will soon provide answers about ...

Something in space has been releasing fleeting blasts of radio waves, and scientists have finally unraveled this decade-old ...

WASHINGTON/SEATTLE—President Donald Trump's differences with rival presidential candidate Joe Biden extend far beyond planet earth. President Trump's plans ...

U.S. space agency NASA confirmed Monday that water exists on the sunny side of the Moon, albeit in ...

MOSCOW—A trio of space travelers safely returned to Earth on Thursday after a six-month mission on the International ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily ...

Canada’s telecommunications regulator has given Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) a licence allowing the company to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars’ South Pole alongside a large underground ...

Humanity will for the first time have the chance to find out if we can deflect an asteroid, ...

The British government pledged a million pounds ($1.3 million) on Wednesday to tackle dangerous “space junk,” which could ...

WASHINGTON—Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine ...

NASA has announced it is revising some unofficial nicknames used to refer to cosmic objects as it joins ...

U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built—a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills, and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back an amazing photo showing summertime on Saturn. Hubble captured the image ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover. The spacecraft ...

Underscoring its goal of supremacy in what is sometimes called the ultimate high ground, the U.S. Space Force ...

The United Arab Emirates launched its first mission to Mars as it strives to develop its scientific and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A pair of spacewalking astronauts tackled the final set of battery swaps outside the International Space ...