If all goes to plan, by 2040 people may be living on the moon in houses made—essentially—from mushrooms. At least, that’s how astrobiologist Dr. Lynn J. Rothschild is picturing it. She imagines domed ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it -- a test to prove ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar "superstorm" that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

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Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that showcases 5000 galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. It was ...

Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about when and how to see it.

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Physicist Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challen ...