NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's surface, with Mars samples worth their weight in scientific gold hanging in ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

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A new NASA-backed study suggests alien civilisations could eavesdrop on Earth's space transmissions, offering a new approach ...

Alien civilizations could eavesdrop on our communications with our spacecraft and rovers, according to a new study – and we ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...

The Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida will get a new STEM building in 2027, right near New College ...

The president's budget request called for about a 20 percent cut, overall, to NASA's budget, at a top-line level of $18.81 billion. By contrast, the House budget proposes to keep funding levels nearly ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

NASA has managed to get men on the moon, rovers on Mars, and probes around Saturn's rings. But it seems the space agency is yet to master how to make decent sushi in space.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...