Has the James Webb Space Telescope found life on a distant extrasolar world or could there be an alternative explanation ?
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be carrying an instrument that may be capable of detecting signs of primitive life.
The SpaceX CEO has some ambitious plans to build a thriving city on the Red Planet within as little as 20 years.
Launching a rocket takes a lot of energy, but what if it were possible to fire a spacecraft into space instead?
A former British Special Forces paratrooper claims that the UK military captured a crashed alien spacecraft in the 1980s.
The enormous next-generation spacecraft launched atop a Super Heavy booster in Texas earlier today.
Delays in the development of new spacesuits are proving particularly problematic for manned missions.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sampled Europa's atmosphere and discovered less oxygen than had been expected.
Back in 2019, a space probe carrying a cargo of live tardigrades crash-landed on the lunar surface.
Astronomers have been exploring whether these huge stellar explosions could be acting as deep space beacons.
Reports have been circulating this week concerning rumors of a Russian space-based nuclear weapons system.
The details of the vehicle's latest mission are top secret, but that hasn't stopped an amateur astronomer from locating it.
The achievement is not only significant for Japan but could also pave the way toward many more lunar missions.
A rather unusual tourism campaign for Lexington, Kentucky has involved scientists sending a message into deep space.
For a while now, rumors have circulated about the discovery of an exoplanet with strong signs of life.
Scientists in the UK have discovered what appears to be a gargantuan ring-shaped structure far off in space.
Next year we will be seeing the launch of the Europa Clipper as well as the first crewed mission of the Artemis program.
After several delays earlier this month, the enigmatic vehicle has finally headed back into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Fragments of the space rock rained down over Tatahouine, Tunisia - the filming location of Tatooine in Star Wars.
The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Blue Origin envisages a future in which most people live in outer space.