Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...

“The Interstellar Song Contest” proved the most enjoyable episode of Doctor Who for many a year. Importantly, it actually felt like a proper Doctor Who story, while still combining aspects of light ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

A SpaceX vehicle that has spent about a month docked at the International Space Station on a resupply mission is due to depart Thursday, May 22.

The discovery of this new microbe is not immediately concerning but warrants careful study,” Javier Martin-Torres, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland professor of planetary science, said in an ...

A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

SpaceX has received the thumbs up from the Federal Aviation Administration for the next test flight of Starship from Starbase in Texas.