SpaceX has taken four polar explorers on a private Dragon spaceflight over the North and South Poles for the first time.

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.

Hello, Antarctica. Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible.” ...

Saturn has "gained" a staggering 128 new moons in a groundbreaking discovery by astronomers in Taiwan. The find, made by a ...

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

The "booty suit," as Hasbany called it on her Instagram, lit up in strategic regions when Badu performed her classic, “Annie, ...

Proctor/J. Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest stellar neighbors, a new study reveals. The rocky alien worlds are close ...

The gas giants are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, according to a study in The Astrophysical Journal. The HR ...

is bigger than the planet Mercury, while the smallest is no larger than a sports arena, according to NASA. Seven of Saturn's moons are so bright that they are visible from Earth through a telescope.