The announcement formalized a timeline that Chinese scientists have set out before, as the United States and China ramp up competition in space.

The Space Launch System's booster and engine are now projected to cost at least $13.1 billion over 25 years.

We are on the cusp of learning far more about the projected icy situation of the moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. Multiple nations are eying the moon's south pole with research teams plotting out how and where to explore the bottoms of the sun-shy features.

"I think it would be pretty ambitious... but really great if we could pull it off."

Jed McCaleb, who founded the defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has announced he's planning to launch the world's first private space station.

NASA's TESS spacecraft found the two planets, which are slightly larger than Earth.

Their biggest obstacle is a thick layer of haze that blankets the planet, shielding it from the probing eyes of space telescopes and stymying efforts to study its atmosphere. But now, NASA's new JWST has solved that issue. The telescope's infrared technology allows it to see planetary objects and fe

Rocket Lab launched two toaster-size satellites for NASA on Sunday, the first of four "cubesats" designed to provide hourly updates of typhoon and hurricane development in a bid to improve forecasting and provide new insights into how tropical storms evolve and intensify.

An experimental Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth on Monday after staying in orbit for 276 days, China's state media reported, completing a landmark mission to test the country's reusable space technologies.

Reusable uncrewed vehicle lands after spending 276 days in orbit, marking an ‘important breakthrough’.

A recent analysis from NASA's Voyage spacecraft has led scientists to conclude that four of Uranus' largest moons contain water. These moons are believed to have an ocean layer that exists between the icy crust and core, and they could be miles deep. Uranus has at least 27 moons, five of which were large: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, and Miranda. According to recent peer-reviewed study from NASA scientists, the four largest are believed to have the ability to retain heat caused by radioactive decay.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin was named an honorary brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and made an honorary member of the U.S. Space Force on Friday, more than 50 years after he first set foot on the moon.

As big as a football field and heavier than 200 elephants, de-orbiting the ISS represents a monumental challenge. But is there another future for the space station?

More accurate space-weather predictions and safer satellite navigation through radiation belts could someday result from new insights into "space waves," researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University reported.

The second-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) won't launch in the next few days after all. The Houston-based company Axiom Space had been targeting May 8 for the launch of its Ax-2 mission, which will send four people to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule for a roughly 10-day stay.

British billionaire Richard Branson believes space travel can be beneficial for the planet, arguing that trips like the one he undertook in 2021 open doors and cut red tape. Speaking to the BBC in an interview to be broadcast on TV Thursday, it was put to the entrepreneur that figures like Prince William and Bill Gates had expressed some degree of skepticism about space travel given that there were still many challenges on Earth.

The Moon has been a subject of awe and fascination for millennia, with its shape-shifting powers and enigmatic dark side.And though it’s the one celestial body on which man has taken (small) steps, we still have big leaps to go in understanding its potential and uncovering its secrets.However, one h...

The action 12,000 light-years away may presage what happens to Earth about 5 billion years from now.

Nuclear propulsion could enable humanity to reach farther into space than ever before.

It has now been two weeks since the on-target launch of the European Space Agency's 1.5 billion euro probe that is bound for the moons of Jupiter. This process had been going well until the space agency attempted to extend a 16-meter-long antenna that is part of its radar instrument. The Radar for Icy Moons Exploration, or RIME, is an important scientific instrument on the spacecraft because its ground-penetrating radar will allow for examinations of the interior of intriguing moons such as Europa and Ganymede.