The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

China officially launched its Tianwen-2 mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking a major step in its growing ...

Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into ...

MIT researchers observe a “second wave” of heat in superfluid helium, confirming that heat propagates like sound.

Rocket launches are loud, and big rockets are louder. Launches used to be occasional spectacles, and not many people minded the noise.

NASA’s SWOT satellite tracked large U.S. river flood waves for the first time, revealing their speed and size.

In a matter of days, SpaceX could launch massive Starship once again. What happened on previous 8 flight tests? What is the ...

If Earth suddenly orbited a second sun, temperatures could spike, seasons would vanish, and gravitational chaos might follow—scientists say the planet’s survival would be nearly impossible. [second su ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket continues to grow inside the NASA's Vehicle ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

He is the second-oldest American astronaut ... recent space station missions May 20 (UPI) -- Four NASA astronauts who recently returned to Earth from a mission aboard the International Space ...

The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really likely to host life.