The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Blue Origin is committed to making a permanent human presence in space a reality. To this end, they have developed the New ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

At the recent 3rd International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu), Chinese scientists proposed the concept of establishing a relatively complete detection and defense system for near-Earth ...

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

Human exploration of the universe is truly endless, always leading to new surprises. On September 4 this year, NASA, the ...

Liftoff of the IMAP missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for September 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Space debris is a growing threat to satellites and missions, with over 14,000 pieces already cluttering low-Earth orbit. To ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

Our readers continue to grapple with this one, with the latest batch of answers giving a more hopeful response to any readers ...