Space News

NASA's next Mars lander is in the final phases of preparation before heading to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, where it will become the first interplanetary mission ever to launch from that site.

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a cargo shipment to the International Space Station in record time early Sunday morning (Feb. 11), and you can watch it live online.

New Horizons was even farther from home than NASA's Voyager 1 when it captured the famous "Pale Blue Dot" image of Earth. That picture was part of a composite of 60 images looking back at the solar system, on Feb....  �...

Photographs of rare species from unexplored area of Antarctic seabed highlight need to protect life in one of the most remote places on the planet. The images below are the first of creatures found in a previously unexpl...

A new theory has been proposed for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes than Neanderthals -- the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and...

An exclusive video from National Geographic shows Elon Musk's surprised, joyful reaction to the successful first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6.

NASA's Juno probe completed its 10th science flyby of Jupiter on Feb. 7, its 11th total flyby since its arrival at the Jovian giant in July 2016.