The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...

NASA is racing to contact a lost probe that mysteriously lost contact over Mars in early December. The $582.5 million Maven ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

As defined by the United Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty, any space object remains under the jurisdiction of the terrestrial state that launched it. In this document and subsequent UN space treaties, ...

A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the number of satellite launches has increased by an order of magnitude as ...

A Florida-based startup called Space Beyond recently announced that it's locked in plans for its first memorial spaceflight ...