Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as the ...

China's Shenzhou 19 crew safely returned to Earth on April 30 after six months aboard the Tiangong space station, landing at ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

From discarded spacecraft bolts to defunct satellites, millions of pieces of space debris are beginning to pose a larger ...

May 11: SpaceX launches NASA’s TRACERS mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry twin synchronized spacecraft to orbit as ...

Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is set to tumble back to Earth's atmosphere after 50 years in orbit, and its landing spot remains ...

May's Flower full Moon is a micromoon because it occurs during apogee, when the Moon is at its farthest point in its orbit of Earth.

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

In NASA’s fifth all-female spacewalk, Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers installed solar panel mounts and repositioned antennas ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

After Mother Earth Coffee closed in March, Chrissy and Robert Kehoe, who live in the neighborhood, reached out to Mother ...

The thousands of satellites operated by companies from Starlink to Telesat will eventually burn up in the atmosphere when ...