Space News

How many tiny bits of space debris are pummeling the International Space Station day after day? A new experiment headed into orbit this week will find out.

An airspace closure notice published by the Federal Aviation Administration Dec. 9 suggests Blue Origin is preparing to resume test flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle after a hiatus of more than a year. SpaceN...

Six people recently returned from an eight-month long isolation experiment to test human endurance for long-term space missions.

A portion of the Himalayan mountain range was pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited about 250 miles above the Earth....

The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft, which launched three Expedition 53 crew members to the International Space Station in July 28, 2017, is pictured docked to the Rassvet module....

China Great Wall Industry Corp. launched Algeria's first telecommunications satellite, Alcomsat-1, aboard a Long March 3B rocket at 11:40 a.m. Eastern to geostationary transfer orbit, the Algerian press agency APS said t...

Astronomers have profound questions about the first billion years of the universe: what burned off the fog of the cosmic dark ages? Was it the formation of stars or supermassive black holes, or both? And how did those bl...

A pair of studies is calling into question the assumptions scientists make when determining if a planet outside of our solar system could support life.

High-pressure experiments explore what it might take to make exoplanets habitable --