After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has returned to Earth after an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station. He ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound psychological impact upon us ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...