Space

The Australian government has announced its new space agency will be headquartered in South Australia. The Australian Space Agency will be located at Lot Fourteen, which is at the downtown site ...

WASHINGTON—Voyager 2, a NASA probe launched in 1977 and designed for just a five-year mission, has become only ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space, a region of space that only one other manmade spacecraft has ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured “shiny” objects on Mars, but scientists are not sure what they are. “The planning ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived on Dec. 3, at the ancient asteroid Bennu, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet ...

LOS ANGELES—NASA's first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of a distant world hurtled closer to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA's InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars face ...

ORLANDO—The first flight of a SpaceX rocket tailored to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is set ...

After about six months of travel, NASA's Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) ...

The little planet that’s had so little attention will finally get a little more acknowledgement—in seven years. A ...

Russian officials revealed a “spacecraft of the future” that they believe can transport humans to Mars. "Today, the ...

Space enthusiasts around the world say they see a creature lurking in a new photo of swirly clouds ...

The physicist and astronomer who discovered the Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever discovered in the solar system, ...

NASA has for the first time shared photographs of a "flying saucer" that crash-landed in a Utah desert ...

Commentary The Trump administration wants the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to focus on deep space exploration, ...

BERLIN—Europe's Airbus on Nov. 2 delivered the "powerhouse" for NASA's new Orion Spaceship that will take astronauts to ...

BERLIN—Europe's Airbus on Nov. 2, delivered the "powerhouse" for NASA's new Orion Spaceship that will take astronauts to ...

NASA has completed three successful tests of the parachute that will lower its landing craft to the surface ...

Astronomers peering billions of light years into space have detected the largest, most extensive collection of galaxies ever ...

MOSCOW—Two astronauts who survived the mid-air failure of a Russian rocket will fly again and are provisionally set ...

MONTREAL—Russia says it is suspending manned space launches pending a probe into a Russian booster rocket failure, raising ...

WASHINGTON—Astronomers have pinpointed what appears to be the first moon detected outside our solar system, a large gaseous ...

NASA  has sought to tamp down speculation that sabotage caused a tiny hole found last month in the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The debut of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules is off until next year. NASA said this week ...

For over 25 years, Hubble Space Telescope has become a staple name for bringing us crystal-clear images of ...

Browsing through NASA photo archives, one may not really expect anything surprising. You know, guys in tinfoil suits, ...