NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

On September 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will be visible across parts of the southern hemisphere, briefly dimming skies ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

A new report from the Commercial Space Federation warns that China could soon overtake the U.S. in the "new space race." The ...

A supply ship has arrived at the International Space Station after a day's delay due to a premature engine shutdown.

Specialists specified that the asteroid’s next passage near Earth will take place in 11 years, on August 20, 2036 ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

It was the first flight of Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft which is a larger version of its earlier spacecraft. NASA ...

A new era in science is emerging, one that returns the study of the mind to the center of the conversation for psychology, one with a new toolkit for questions in consciousness.

A stronomers have seen something they did not expect: an Einstein Cross with not just the standard four images, there was an extra one. This unprecedented present might allow astronomers to better ...