A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

WASHINGTON — Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C.-based space technology startup, is adapting navigation software originally developed by NASA for military use under a U.S. Space Force contract, ...

Breakthroughs in scientific research are not always made in experienced laboratories and research teams. Occasionally, they ...

Celebrate the New Year with the "Champagne Cluster," a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray ...

Scientists have theorized that dark matter clumps exist in staggering numbers, far more than the galaxies we see. Only clumps ...

Humans have a predilection for doomsday predictions. Witness the much-hyped technological terror of the Y2K, or year 2000, bug, which failed to crash critical systems as projected, or the apocalyptic ...

A newly revealed cosmic image shows two galaxy clusters colliding as one. Nicknamed the Champagne Cluster, it offers rare ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

The asteroid Apophis, also known as 99942 Apophis, will have its historic close approach to Earth on Friday, the 13th of ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...