A Finnish artist who turned his camera skyward 25 years ago has completed an unprecedented image of the Milky Way.

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since February and is finally ready to attempt a touchdown on the red planet.

A physicist has crafted what he says is the first theoretical propulsion system that can move faster than the speed of light without the need of inaccessible negative energy. The design faces ongoing questions from other researchers but represents a significant improvement from preceding attempts.

Low Earth orbit is reaching capacity as tech companies such as SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon race to industrialize space with satellites, and in response, physicists are attempting to lay out safe and affordable options for expanding the market into medium Earth orbit, a much riskier arena.

NASA and Houston-based Axiom Space have signed a "mission order" setting the stage for four civilians to visit the International Space Station early next year, the first fully commercial flight to the orbiting lab complex, agency managers said Monday.

Humanity has sent spacecraft and landers to the Red Planet since the space age began. Now, we know which microbes might have survived the trip, says geneticist Christopher Mason.

Adam Mann writes about the debate over the ethical quandaries of space exploration and the human colonization of other planets, including Mars.

A never-ending detonation could be the key to hypersonic flight and space planes that can seamlessly fly from Earth into orbit.

A NASA spacecraft is headed back to Earth with rubble it collected from an asteroid nearly 200 million miles away. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex fired its engines Monday to start the two-year trip home.

According to the country’s space agency, the remnants of a Chinese rocket hurtling down into Earth have plunged into the Indian Ocean. The majority of the rocket was lost when it re-entered the atmosphere, but debris was confirmed to have landed just west of the Maldives on Sunday by state media.

An "out of control" Chinese rocket has landed in the Indian Ocean, China says.

Elon Musk is right to dream of humanity’s future as a multi-planet species. However, the multigenerational, millennia-long project of space colonization will be a public-sector endeavor, or it will not happen.

There are several ways that surface gravity on Earth could change. We wouldn’t like most of them. If a mini black hole collided with Earth and didn’t pass straight through, it would sink to the planet’s centre. Gravity would soar as the entire planet is pulled into the hole. It would probably get very hot too, so no one would survive to see the final spaghettification as we got within a few kilometres of the hole, when we are pulled apart by intense gravity gradients.

Could there be mushrooms on Mars? In a new paper, an international team of scientists from countries including the U.S., France, and China have gathered and compared photographic evidence they claim shows fungus-like objects growing on the Red Planet.

From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality—whatever the cost.

Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin on Wednesday opened ticket sales for rides on its New Shepard tourism rocket.

The awesome spectacle of a black hole ripping a star to shreds can be seen in this striking new visualization from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a particle accelerator lab in Hamburg, Germany. Such events are known as stellar tidal disruptors, and they are fairly rare, occurring just once every 10,000 years in a typical galaxy, according to NASA. Stars are typically flung toward a ravenous black hole after interacting gravitationally with another star or massive object...

SpaceX boss Elon Musk says failed exercise proves ‘we need larger and more advanced rockets’

NASA 360 shares the numbers of objects found near the earth in the latest report. According to the NASA Planetary Defense: Till now they have around 25,705 discovered near-Earth asteroids. Some of the asteroids are larger than 1 kilometres.

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe, created from massive stars that have collapsed