It was a wild year for NASA, and the space agency has the pictures to prove it.
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils.
The mission rode aboard Rocket Lab's Electron, reusing one of the rocket's boosters for the first time.
How would the chaotic alien world from the series' virtual reality game look in real life? We spoke to the show's science advisor to find out.
JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission.
The two satellites came to within less than 30 feet of each other back in February, a distance far closer than initial estimates suggested.
Batteries falling from space, an eclipse photobombed by comets, a newborn star, and more, mark another exhilarating week in space.
Sierra Space's Ghost delivery platform is now in beta testing.
NASA's Juno spacecraft saw molten rock—and a mountain straight out of Star Wars —on Jupiter's moon Io.
The Solar Sail mission will launch on April 23 on board Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle.
The space agency has been carrying out tests to make sure the repair work is safe for the ISS astronauts.
The shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric worldview during the scientific revolution influenced our perception of life beyond Earth.
It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth.
Moonquakes were first detected on the Moon's near side during the Apollo era, but there's little information on the tremors taking place at the south pole.
Green is a sign of life on Earth, but other habitable planets could be teeming with purple microbes that we should be able to detect with telescopes.
The space agency jettisoned a large pallet of old batteries, intending for them to burn up in Earth's atmosphere, but a small fragment survived the journey.
The ancient Lyrids are now active, with peak meteor shower activity expected this coming weekend.
The black hole lurks just 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila.
The ambitious Mars Sample Return project is on hold due to escalating costs and an unrealistic timeline.
Astroscale's satellite parked itself next to an old rocket, aiming to capture the wayward junk and fling it towards a fiery death.
