“The settlement of North America and other continents was a prelude to humanity’s greater challenge: the space frontier,” the ...

NASA is gearing up for an ambitious mission to explore the Moon’s largest crater, aiming to uncover mysterious elements ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above ...

Something slammed into United Flight 1093 on 16 October while cruising high above Utah. Nobody knows what it was.

A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

A mystery passenger will be aboard Blue Origin’s next space tourism mission, after deciding to keep their identity secret until after Wednesday’s flight. Jeff Bezos’s private space firm will launch ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

The Omega Speedmaster is by far the watch most associated with outer space, and it remains the only watch authorized by NASA for use during extravehicular activity (AKA space walks). But dozens of ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

Two decades after Silverpit was discovered, Nicholson and colleagues revisited the controversy almost by chance. In 2022, ...