Two rare lunar events will coincide this week, making the super blue moon the perfect opportunity to enjoy the night sky.

Indians already saw their space program as a point of pride even before the historic soft landing near the moon's unexplored south pole Wednesday, but the success of the mission is expected to spark a renewed confidence and increased investment in India's growing space sector. 

Four decades ago we sent a message asking 'Is anybody out there?'.

Chandrayaan-3 moves into prelanding orbit amid failure of Russian mission

Called "WonderJourney," a new AI-controlled satellite has made orbit to autonomously process Earth-side data in a fraction of the time as regular sats.

The satellites, called PREFIRE, will measure the infrared radiation that enters and leaves the planet using a spectrometer instrument.

Magnetars are the most magnetic objects in the universe and we know surprisingly little about their origins and formation.

So much you can see it from the ISS in space.

Everything in the universe is moving, and fast.

Two spacecraft – one built by India and the other by Russia – are hurtling on missions towards our Moon by very different routes. Does it matter which will win?

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.

A UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determined that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks.

President Joe Biden has decided to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama.

SpaceX has again launched a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth.

Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.

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White dwarf nicknamed Janus could be in transition from one element dominating at its surface to the other

A stealthy asteroid the size of a 20-story building hid in the sun's glare before zooming uncomfortably close to Earth on July 13. Scientists didn't notice until July 15.

Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'

“They’ve got a great adventure ahead of them.”