More people will be going to the Moon in coming years, and the way current legal frameworks are written could lead to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

The Moon could be the proving ground for humanity’s evolution, however, this new frontier raises complex legal questions.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

In 2015, a rare moment of U.S. congressional unity passed the Space Act — to mine asteroids as if they were open seams of ore and harvest planets like ... by a 1967 Outer Space treaty.

William Shatner was the first celebrity to visit outer space to celebrate his life and legacy, but Russian actor Yulia Peresild was the first to shoot in space.

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...