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"This is now becoming so real."

Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival....

NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years after the Big Bang. That's really early.

White holes are mathematically possible, according to general relativity. But does that mean they're actually out there?

The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.

It's a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customer United Launch Alliance as well as Blue Origin's own rocket New Glenn....

A study published this week in an astronomical journal suggests our universe could be 26.7 billion years old, or about twice as old as we thought.

Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56...

Using nuclear fusion, Pulsar's rocket could dramatically increase travel speeds, aiming for tests by 2025 and fusion temperatures by 2027.

India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon by rover, completing a scientific mission that was first attempted in 2019 but ended in catastrophic failure due to a software glitch...

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species.

We have no explanations for this sort of slow repeat.

The James Webb Space Telescope detected water vapor swirling around a planetary system 370 light-years away.

NASA has predicted that a double solar storm attack will strike the Earth around 5:30 PM today, July 7. Know just how intense it can be and what to expect.

A pair of astrophysicists, one with Kindai University, the other the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, both in Japan, have found possible evidence of an Earth-like planet residing in the Kuiper Belt. In their paper published in The Astronomical Journal, Patryk Sofia Lykawka and Takashi Ito describe properties of the...

There's a lot of trash on the moon right now—including nearly 100 bags of human waste—and with countries around the globe traveling to the moon, there's going to be a lot more, both on the lunar surface and in Earth's orbit.

Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has announced.

China is the latest nation to study lunar lava tubes as locations for bases. They provide natural protection that's impossible to ignore.

Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup

When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy.

NASA's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results.

The Solar System is a fairly tidy place.