Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown Wednesday, but then exploded on the landing pad with so much force that it was hurled into the air. ...

A high-energy particle, thought to have been sent our way by a supermassive black hole hundreds of millions ...

Three Australian space companies have united to launch a bushfire satellite into space inside a space taxi with ...

MOSCOW—Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on Sunday on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving ...

Supermassive black holes are exotic astrophysical objects harbored at the centers of galaxies. Their masses can reach 1 ...

Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) space agencies have strengthened their ties further by signing the worlds first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux figures rocketing into orbit on SpaceX’s first private flight should ...

A recent observation has challenged the current theory about the way galaxies formed in the early days of ...

LOS ANGELES—NASA's science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the ...

MOSCOW—An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully on Feb. 15 with a load of supplies for the International ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United Arab Emirates on Sunday published the first image for its Mars probe now ...

Scientists have discovered that a small galaxy called Tucana II has a much stronger gravitational pull than expected, ...

A SpaceX Starship prototype rocket exploded on landing after an otherwise successful high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica, ...

Our universe is not as peaceful as what we see in the night sky. Eruptions or catastrophes can ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking astronauts encountered cable trouble Wednesday while attempting to make improvements to the International Space Station’s ...

A radio telescope has found evidence that planets might form at the same time as their stars, instead ...

LOS ANGELES—Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than ...

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 ...