NASA is eyeing alternative options for its Artemis 3 lunar lander, and it looks like Blue Origin has a shot at securing the ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

"We study cometary bodies because they act as time capsules, sealing in material from their formation billions of years ago." ...

Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

A U.S. government shutdown has furloughed over 15,000 nonessential NASA employees. Essential operations, including support for the International Space Station and Artemis moon missions, will continue.

In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use maritime might to create a global empire. Beginning in 1405, Ming Dynasty admiral ...

NASA awarded Sierra Space's parent company part of a $14 billion ISS supply contract in 2016. Nearly 10 years later, everyone on that contract but Sierra Space is doing supply runs to ISS. Last week, ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

As predicted, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within spitting distance of the surface of Mars as it continued blazing its path through the solar system. The mysterious object, widely believed to be ...

For decades, NASA has increasingly leaned on corporate contractors to develop the spacecraft it uses to explore the solar system. Triumphs have included SpaceX’s Dragon vehicles, which can now ...

Space exploration is as fickle as it is fantastic. From the highest highs to the lowest lows — from the euphoria of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, for example, to the devastation of the Space ...