Space

Humanity will for the first time have the chance to find out if we can deflect an asteroid, the European Space Agency (ESA) said—knowledge that could be useful in the ...

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 ...

The Chinese regime failed a rocket launch on July 10—the fifth unsuccessful attempt that Beijing has publicly acknowledged ...

This weekend, stargazers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be treated to an annular solar eclipse on the heels ...

The Department of Defense on June 17 released its Defense Space Strategy, which will serve as a roadmap ...

South Australia has been chosen for the nation's only space flight mission control, creating Australia's first space hub. ...

Some 3,000 light-years away from Earth, researchers believe they have found an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. ...

Three huge asteroids will be approaching Earth from June 6, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have successfully disembarked the SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule and entered the ...

NASA and SpaceX have completed a historic launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, marking ...

A prototype of SpaceX's upcoming heavy-lift rocket, Starship, exploded on Friday during ground tests in south Texas.

There's a 50-50 chance to launch the SpaceX rocket successfully on Saturday, NASA officials said Friday. The scheduled ...

Weather again threatens the launch window for a SpaceX rocket to carry NASA astronauts on the first crewed ...

NASA has scrubbed what would have been a historic launch of a SpaceX rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is ready to take the blame if anything goes wrong with the ...

The first manned spaceflight to launch from the United States since 2011 is slated to take off on ...

The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from ...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch with two American astronauts on Wednesday from the John F. ...