Space News

A team of scientists led by Universities Space Research Association's David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute is using observations of the Moon to further understand the impact on Earth that is linked to the ext...

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia....

Composite image of category 4 Super-Typhoon Haima in the Pacific ocean, from 09:00 (UTC) on Tuesday 18 October 2016....

A few hours after docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 21, Expedition 49/50 Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, ope...

Is time travel merely science fiction, or is it possible without contradicting the laws of physics? In this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson and his guest, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, examine time travel t...

Farewell, Shiaparelli. The crash site of the lost ESA lander from the ExoMars mission has been found. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to b...

NASA's Kepler observatory has spotted 20 planets that orbit cool, small stars -- the largest such haul so far. These long-lived stars, known as K and M dwarfs, are ubiquitous in the Milky Way and could turn out to host.....

So, half of the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission went well the other day. The Trace Gas Orbiter is now circling the planet, and appears to be healthy and happy. Unfortunately, the Schiaparelli lander didn't do so ...

A news story began furiously circulating about a month ago about how NASA had just changed the signs of the Zodiac.

This image of the sunlit part of Jupiter and its swirling atmosphere was created by a citizen scientist (Alex Mai) using data from Juno's JunoCam instrument....

Matters of the heart can be puzzling and mysterious -- so too with unusual astronomical objects called heartbeat stars....