Wally Funk was one of 13 female aviators who lobbied for women to become astronauts in the early days of spaceflight.

NEOWISE has provided an estimate of the size of 1,850 near-Earth objects, helping us better understand our nearest solar system neighbors

Parts of Mars may have been habitable for thousands or even a million years, based on analysis of clays found in one of its craters

For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

A team led by astronomers at UC Santa Barbara have confirmed the existence of an elusive new type of supernova

Either liquid water Is common beneath Mars’ South Pole, or these signals are indicative of something else.

China has set its sights on Mars. It's great to see China stepping up, and committing to goals like landing the first humans on Mars.

The ESA says it is “blown away” by the record 22,000 astronaut applicants including women and 200 people with disabilities.

Scientists believe that 1,715 star-systems could have spotted Earth since human civilization blossomed about 5,000 years ago.

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus. the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world...

There’s no such thing as laundry day on the International Space Station;until now. P&G is working with NASA to test a new detergent in space

Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) were raised in Hawaii

President Joe Biden is going all in on infrastructure in space. That is to say, space stations.

The distances between t he stars are so vast that they can make your brain melt.

Space explorers, pack your bags! Neptune One, the pilot-operated space balloon that aims to take space tourists to the edge of space

Left hands and right hands are almost perfect mirror images of each other. But whatever way they are twisted and turned...

The mission is part of a programme to introduce a long-term base on the moon.

NASA has a problem. It wants to send humans on long-distance space missions but the human body does not thrive under the rigors of space

The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will be the first European woman to command

NASA’s new telescope has a considerable mission on its hands: to peer deeper into space and further back in time than ever before