Space

It will be the second asteroid encounter for the spacecraft, which launched in 2021 on a quest to better understand when planets were forming in our early solar system.

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is still a 0.3% chance that the observation is a statistical fluke.

Videos of a ball of fire shooting over Mexico and dissolving in a burst of light quickly became fuel for memes on social media.

The exoplanet, which is about 120 light years away, appears to take an unusual path around two brown dwarfs.

Today’s female-only spaceflight was the first since 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman in space.

Katy Perry and Gayle King are among six women who will briefly reach the edge of space, the most recent high-profile launch by Jeff Bezos' rocket company.

The two NASA astronauts tell us how they handled the unexpected after a ten day test flight turned into a nine month stay in space.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent 286 days on the International Space Station after technical issues bedeviled their weeklong mission.

The angle between Earth and Saturn will briefly create something of a cosmic illusion, in which the planet’s rings look invisible from our vantage point.

The big question is whether dark energy is a constant force, which scientists have long thought, or whether the force is weakening. New findings bolster the case for the latter.

TikToker Daryn Wilmore is excited to make up for lost time after her father spent 286 days in space: “Welcome to the very final installment of ‘My Dad is Stuck in Space.’”