Space Science

NASA announces the end of its Marsquake-hunting lander

45 years later, scientists hone in on a mysterious alien signal's origin

Blood Moon 2022: 8 breathtaking images of May’s total lunar eclipse

How does the Event Horizon Telescope work? How we finally saw the Milky Way's central black hole

Look up! A skyscraper-sized asteroid is wandering toward Earth

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft takes another shot at the International Space Station

'For All Mankind' Season 3 release date, trailer, cast, plot for the Apple TV+ sci-fi series

The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy proves Einstein right

How do astronomers find exoplanets? 5 of the best methods, explained

Lunar law: Canada can now prosecute crimes committed on the Moon

NASA's ailing Mars lander captures the biggest Marsquake yet

Once a year, we get closer to NASA's Voyagers — here's why

Scientists stared into the center of the Milky Way — here’s what they found

China finds recent water flows on Mars, with big implications for alien life

Surprise! Biologists find that plants can grow in Moondust returned by Apollo

Look! Astronomers capture the first-ever image of the Milky Way's black hole

An ultra-bright nova hid an elusive new phenomena — but astronomers caught it in action

What are redshift and blueshift? How astronomers learn the distance of far-off objects

Astronomers find a surprising process that capped early black holes from growing

Engage! NASA prepares the Webb Telescope camera that will find new alien worlds

Crew-3 Splashdown: Watch SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Endurance" splash into the Gulf of Mexico

NASA’s plan to put humans back on the Moon hits yet another snag

These mass-murdering black holes can binge thousands of stars at a time

Real-life time travel hinges on this one controversial scientific theory

New messages to aliens bring up two crucial ethical questions

NASA wet dress rehearsal woes set back launch date of Moon mega-rocket

This futuristic telescope would use Einsteinian physics to find Earth 2.0

Study: Lunar soil has the right stuff for “extraterrestrial photosynthesis”

Look: Explosive fireball leaves behind meteorites in Mississippi

Astronomers find a puzzling parasitic object — is it a black widow pulsar or something else entirely?

May 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse: You need to see the first Blood Moon of the year

Watch: Amazing video shows a helicopter catching a rocket booster mid-air

Study: To fight off depression, here’s how much exercise you really need

Webb Telescope needs to hit these major milestones next to achieve pivotal “first light”

Is Russia's withdrawal from the ISS a bluff? Why it’s too soon to say if it’s leaving

Study: People with mental health issues are more at risk of breakthrough Covid-19

Hot Jupiters: Why astronomers are obsessed with these “hellish” exoplanets

Mars scientists discover a puzzling impact crater on the Red Planet

A Mount Everest-sized asteroid will sweep by Earth this month

Mars City: Researchers find a way to make buildings with dirt and urine

What is the Epoch of Reionization? Inside one of the Webb Telescope’s prime targets

Fresh James Webb Space Telescope images are here — they will blow you away

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter spots beautiful spacecraft wreck on Mars

Look! Webb Telescope captures 5 different, dazzling views of a nearby galaxy

Focus! NASA drops jaw-droppingly sharp new Webb Telescope images

Astrophysicists may be on the brink of a massive alien breakthrough

A new hibernation study is bad news for future space travelers

NASA extends 8 missions, including plans to scrutinize a large asteroid that will swing by Earth in 2029

This nearby Earth-like exoplanet may be habitable, but only sometimes

Astronomers just found 2 new building blocks of life in meteorites