Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—NASA and SpaceX on Friday, Feb. 22, approved a first test flight next week of the new commercial Dragon capsule designed for crew. No one will be aboard, ...

A tiny moon was recently discovered around Neptune, said a study published Feb. 20 in the journal Nature. ...

An asteroid that’s about the size of a football field flew past Earth on Feb. 19. The object, ...

RAMAT GAN, Israel—A nonprofit Israeli consortium said on Feb. 18, that it hopes to make history this week ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A harpoon flung from a satellite has successfully captured a piece of pretend space junk, like ...

Scientists have said that they have observed blasts of radio signals coming from deep in space. Researchers at ...

A Mars rover spotted  “shiny” objects on Mars, but scientists are not sure what they are. “The planning ...

Saturn's iconic rings are only a temporary accessory, according to research which confirms that they will have disappeared ...

One of the oldest rocks on Earth may have been dug up on the Moon. A piece of ...

Skywatchers howled at the moon at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles when the full lunar eclipse appeared ...

Come Sunday, strap on your binoculars and look skywards; there’s a cosmic surprise in store. Not only a ...

Look up into the night sky on Jan. 20, and—if it is clear, you may witness the so-called ...

HAWTHORNE, Calif.—SpaceX said Jan. 16 that it will build test versions of its Mars spaceship in south Texas ...

Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun will ...

Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don’t worry. For ...

A number of scientists have speculated that Titan, the moon of Saturn, could be the home of extraterrestrial ...

Harvard University Astronomy Department chair Avi Loeb has defended his hypothesis that a strange object—the Oumuamua—found in the ...

Researchers say that alien life could possibly exist on a planet 30 trillion miles from Earth. Barnard B, ...

LOS ANGELES—A SpaceX rocket delivered 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit on Friday, completing a two-year campaign by Iridium ...

Humans may have been able to capture and observe the birth of a black hole or a neutron ...

A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Jan. 2 of the most ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—A NASA explorer is believed to have reached the solar system's outermost region, flying close to a ...

Two Chinese hackers have been indicted by the Department of Justice with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, as ...

Two Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk seeking to resolve the mystery of a small hole found in the ...

A spacecraft has captured a 50-mile-wide icy crater on Mars, and the images were released by European Space ...

A powerful space camera operated by the European Space Agency has captured stunning images of a giant crater ...

Look! Up in the sky! It isn’t a bird, it doesn’t look like a plane—what is it? San ...