Space

Some 163,000 light-years from the Milky Way is a much smaller, much more ancient galaxy: Tucana II, so named for the…

Scientists stunned the world last year by claiming to have discovered traces of phosphine in the Venusian clouds.…

For the pending Artemis missions to the Moon, NASA has already selected the southern polar region as the destination…

The two wealthiest men in the world—Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—are bickering about their competing satellite internet…

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day.

As early as next year, these four men could make history by becoming members of the the first commercial crew to…

Data gathered by NASA’s Cassini probe has allowed scientists to estimate the depth of Kraken Mare—the biggest…

A unique planetary system located 200 light-years from Earth hosts five exoplanets with orbits locked together in a…

SpaceX is scheduled to launch Starship prototype SN9 later today, in what will be the second high-altitude test of…

Nearly 600 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet known as WASP-62b whips around its host star at a breakneck pace.…

Thirteen years ago, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was orbiting Saturn, not yet through its first mission, when a…

Despite the ongoing pandemic, there’s much to be excited about in space this year. NASA’s Perseverance rover is less…

NASA’s Mobile Launcher Platform-2—a structure involved in the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions—is in the process of…

The recent hotfire test of NASA’s next-gen megarocket was supposed to go for eight minutes, but it lasted just 67…

Nothing on the hills seems to be alive, so the rocky terrain of Mars will be filled with the sounds of solitude when…

An exoplanet located 212 light-years away is roughly the same size as Jupiter, but it’s 10 times lighter. The…

SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by…

NASA has given up on the mole—a device that was supposed to dig deep into the Martian surface—after repeated failed…

On November 14, 2014, a telescope spotted a burst of light in a galaxy 570 million light-years away. It was thought…

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a triple-star exoplanet located 1,800 light-years from Earth. Planets…