NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the stars that host distant planets. The mission, called the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, will track ...

The Artemis II mission will be the first on which this NASA rocket and capsule carry people. The crew will be the first to ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

"Follow the water" has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally, for decades. If you ...

China and the U.S. are in a high-stakes race to build permanent lunar outposts. Can both nations coexist on the moon?

A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is practicable”. Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory ...

Science fiction is that creative space where you ground yourself in basic principles of science (and reason, if you will have it) and let your imagination soar. You take your darkest fears and highest ...

An old NASA science satellite is no more. The U.S. Space Force says the Van Allen Probe A plunged uncontrolled from orbit on Wednesday, reentering over the Pacific west of the Galapagos Islands.

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

Women in Tamil Nadu are rising in local governance, asserting their power and challenging systemic discrimination in ...

China's new five-year policy blueprint laid out its ambitions to ​aggressively adopt artificial intelligence throughout the world's second-biggest economy and dominate emerging technologies such as ...