China’s Zhurong rover has sent back a batch of new images from Mars – including a “selfie”. The robot, which landed in May, positioned a wireless...
The so-called “ring of fire” emerges as the bright ring of sunlight draws around the Moon. People in Russia, Canada and Greenland will also be able...
There are more than 200 moons floating around in our solar system, and more are discovered every day. Some moons have bizarre shapes, icy or molten...
The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently ejects masses of highly-magnetized plasma towards Earth. Sometimes these ejections are strong enough to crash through...
New Zealand announced Tuesday it is the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand’s nascent space industry begins to take...
Space is full of unexpected discoveries: Moon turns out to have a “tail”, while planets emit radio waves. And did you know that there’re dwarf galaxies?...
Remnants of China’s largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere late Saturday or early Sunday, a U.S. federally funded space-focused...
Ingenuity, NASA’s robotic helicopter stationed on Mars, has traveled to a new ‘airfield’ on the Red Planet’s surface, straying several hundred feet from its original base...
U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the capsule in the...
Just how old is the universe? Astrophysicists have been debating this question for decades. In recent years, new scientific measurements have suggested the universe may be...
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first...