A San Diego high school senior is a finalist in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search competition for her research on how astronauts’ wounds might be able to heal. Leanne Fan, 18, a ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

Scientists may have narrowed down the landing site of the Soviet Union's Luna 9, which in 1966 became the first spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon.

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

As space activity accelerates, the United States continues to invest heavily in satellite operations, communications, missile ...

A bold proposal would send a spacecraft plunging close to the sun to slingshot after interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, an ...

After problems with helium leaks in the propulsion system, and the failure of five thrusters on Boeing's Starliner, astronaut and Massachusetts native Sunita L. Williams was stuck on the International ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s earliest biology. By combining advanced chemical methods with artificial ...

One of NASA’s most controversial mysteries that has plagued space fans for decades may have finally been solved after 57 years. Nope. Nothing to see here.

A stellar black hole is one that’s created from the gravitational collapse of particularly massive stars, typically greater than eight solar masses. For context, one solar mass is about equivalent to ...

Learn about a global citizen science project that crowdsources real-time aurora sightings.