Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, according to new research.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

Thad McCauley wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Instead, he became an art teacher. But now his art is in space.

The painter Sophie von Hellermann is known for loosely rendered, fantastical scenes inspired by fables and mythologies. In a ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Stunning NASA Deep Space Images ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

Plus, the world's fastest supercomputer can compute 2.7 exaflops, an AI system generates street images from an audio ...

Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we dont enact ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...