And last month, scientists said that they discovered the strongest indication yet of life on a planet 120 light-years away.

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon.

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

Under optimal conditions, about 50 Eta Aquariid meteors can be seen per hour during the shower's peak. But light from the ...

The White House’s proposal to cut NASA’s budget by nearly 25% and cancel several major programs has drawn criticism from ...

NASA's next moon rocket is stacking higher at the Kennedy Space Center, as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage is added to ...

The budget-cutters called astrophysicist Dr. Kartik Sheth and his colleagues in the chief scientist’s suite at NASA ...

As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on April 29, ESA has released its most extensive ...

Is it easier to fall asleep in low gravity?” and other spaceflight questions, answered by two NASA sleep scientists.

The European Space Agency said on Monday it was studying the impact of U.S. budget proposals that include cuts to NASA moon ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

A Soviet spacecraft is set to return from Earth's orbit after a failed mission to Venus over 50 years ago. See when it could ...