A startup established three years ago to churn out a new class of high-power satellites has raised $250 million to ramp up ...

This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...

K2 Space has quadrupled its valuation in less than a year to $3 billion thanks to its cheaper satellites designed for ...

A new research collaboration that fuses fashion and science is set to send bacteria into space—and the outcomes could create ...

Allen Telescope Array campaign shows slow changes in radio scintillation that can nudge pulsar timing by billionths of a ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for.

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back its precious cargo from Asteroid Bennu, scientists expected incredible data. What ...

For nine months in 2022, moss lived in space. It wasn’t in a lab aboard the International Space Station, like other gardening experiments conducted in orbit — rather, the moss was attached to the ...

On the steps of the U.S. Capitol on a balmy October morning, a crowd of people sporting “Save NASA Science” buttons buzzes with anticipation. Among them stands Eli Orland, who likens America’s space ...

Moss spores have survived a prolonged trip to space, scientists reveal. The spores spent nine months on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to our planet, and over 80 ...

NASA on Wednesday released new images of an interstellar comet, just the third visitor ever confirmed from elsewhere in the galaxy, which show the object as a bright point of light surrounded by a ...

"By the middle of next year, we expect to be in a position to decide on the way forward, with clarity on NASA funding and member state ambition and funding." Flagship European space science missions ...