A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of...
Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts...
Finding Earth-like exoplanets with the composition and ingredients for life as we know it is the Holy...
Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at...
Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from...
Europe is struggling more and more with extreme heat in the summer. While climate change is the...
"If Neil deGrasse Tyson read this book, he would not be thrilled."
Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including launching...
We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that...
If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In...
German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) says it is planning its first launch for this summer...
Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host...
About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in...
Life’s capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published...
Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the “Dyson sphere” has been the...
The nebula was formed when a star went supernova 5,000 light-years from Earth.
On Episode 200 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik celebrate their 200th episode...
A research team from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an innovative...
Italian astronomers have performed extensive spectroscopic monitoring of a recently discovered nova known as Vulpeculae 2024, also...