U.S., Russian astronauts safe after emergency landing
The rescue capsule automatically jettisoned from the booster and went into a ballistic descent, landing at a sharper than normal angle and subjecting the crew to heavy gravitational force.
This beaming sculpture will shine from earth’s orbit — and probe the politics of space
Trevor Paglen's sculpture "Orbital Reflector" is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in mid-November, raising questions about who controls space and why.
Meet the scientist behind these stunning images of Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a planetary scientist, has been photographing celestial bodies for decades. But for the Juno mission, her collaborators are citizen scientists.
WATCH: Pence says Space Force will be established by 2020
The vice president is scheduled to speak at 1:45 p.m. EDT. Watch his remarks here.
New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.
A NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday. Watch live here.
On Friday, millions of have the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse – an event popularly known in the media as a “blood moon” – on Friday…
Scientists have finally found for the first time a large watery reservoir beneath the southern ice cap of Mars. Radar suggests it is more than 12 miles wide and similar in some ways to lakes found beneath the Greenland and…
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