Once in the correct area, the rocket would begin to hurtle back down to Earth and land on a soft pad, thus saving the egg ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

NASA's Europa Clipper will be exploring whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa could harbor conditions suitable to life. The ...

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

Texas first passed a law in 1997 that allows astronauts to vote if they will be in space during early voting and on Election ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission is now scheduled to launch Sept. 26 for its journey to the International Space Station, pushing ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low ...