SpaceX is getting closer to launching Starship, the world's largest rocket, once again on a critical flight test later in May.

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter ...

Researchers have found 26 completely new bacterial species—right inside NASA’s ultra-clean spacecraft assembly rooms.

China and Russia have teamed up to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon. The revolutionary project, which is expected to ...

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

HERE’S a question: do you know what happens to pee in space? If yes, urine with a chance of nailing this quiz. If not, you ...

revealing it's a giant rocky planet (super-Earth) surrounded by a thick, hot atmosphere. NASA's JWST detected gases from an atmospheric region hotter than 700°F (370°C), exceeding Venus' surface ...