A team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico, has discovered lithium in the oldest and coldest brown dwarf where the presence of this valuable element has been confirmed so far.

Breakthrough Initiatives just announced a collaborative effort to launch a space telescope that will search for habitable planets around Alpha Centauri

The first woman aboard China’s new space station has snapped some glorious shots of our homeworld during a six-month mission to space. Wang Yaping flew to the Tianhe core module in October aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft along with her colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu.

Solar energy can make space travel more fuel-efficient. 

NASA is launching a spacecraft head-on into an asteroid, hoping to change the space rock's orbit. It is a test in case we really need to smack one out of the way someday.

They get in the way of the cosmos

NASA's Perseverance rover continues collecting Martian rocks. The car-sized robot just snagged its fourth Red Planet rock sample, drilling another core from an intriguing stone that it first sampled a little over a week ago. "A rock so nice, I sampled it twice! Just capped and sealed my fifth sample tube, with another piece from this interesting rock. I'm doubling up on samples at some high-priority targets like this one...

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it represented humanity’s first significant foray into the cosmos.

Saturn-sized planet candidate has been identified in Whirlpool Galaxy 28m light years away

In order to sustain human life for its planned missions.

In the summer of 1975, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California researchers imagined what the future space colonies would look like.

The Parker Solar Probe just set another speed and distance mark.

NASA's mission DART will test our ability to redirect an asteroid by quite literally crashing into it — but the spacecraft will also test a new type of propulsion system for the agency.

Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most detailed look yet of the rotorcraft in action.

A recent space missile from Russia that blew up an old satellite has people concerned about the danger of space debris. But Chris Hadfield says this isn't a new problem.

The "Nudol" anti-ballistic missile system had not destroyed a target before.

An Indigenous clan fears it will lose its place in the world as the government pursues a quest to open a spaceport and lure the billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

NASA's Perseverance rover has socked away another Martian sample to send home to Earth. The car-sized Perseverance rover drilled a core sample on Monday (Nov. 15), filling a titanium tube with Red Planet rock for the third time ever.

Russia has destroyed one of its own satellites in orbit, prompting international condemnation.

Observations by the first infrared space telescope saw something weird beyond Uranus.