In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...

Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...

a dense slap of plasma from the Sun had reached out and "squashed" the planet’s magnetospheres in a rare space weather event.

It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ – about a single day in space – has scooped this year’s prize, but Martin Chilton is sceptical ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

Billionaire owner Elon Musk says that his ambitious vision of 'Earth to Earth' space travel on his Starship rocket is 'now ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

This milestone brings the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope closer to its scheduled launch ... of NASA flagship missions that will be explicitly designed to look for Earth-like planets.” ...