After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...
The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...
X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...
A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...
Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...
As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...
A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...
China continues to make big advances in the final frontier. The nation just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 ...
Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...
In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...
Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...
The Shenzhou 20 vehicle was deemed unfit to carry astronauts back to Earth after suffering a space junk strike.