Space News

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft conducted a two-year reconnaissance and sample collection at the asteroid Bennu, providing crucial data about the 500-meter-wide potentially hazardous rubble pile/space rock. When OSIRIS-REx arr...

A physicist's stunning new photo of Proxima Centauri from the James Webb Space Telescope, was just a slice of chorizo.

The final supermoon of the year will rise this week (Aug. 11). The full Sturgeon moon with likely outshine the Perseid meteor shower which peaks Aug. 11-12.

Earth's Shadow is a terrifying new sci-fi video game just launched on Steam that takes place on the mysterious exoplanet of Sumbra.

The U.S. Postal Service releases a new First-Class stamp series featuring "Toy Story's" Buzz Lightyear

The Aug. 6 maiden flight of India's newly developed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) went awry with "some data loss" that occurred in the terminal stage of the mission. The post India's new SSLV rocket suffers "data...

Chinese scientists want to use satellites orbiting the moon to help get an unprecedented look at the early, dark days of our universe.

India's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) lifted off for the first time Saturday night (Aug. 6), and it's still too early to tell how the new rocket did.

Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies. The mass of the ...