It could be a banner day for spaceflight today (Feb. 4), with five rocket launches planned in 24 hours, four of them from the ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

The allegedly stranded astronauts traveled to space aboard a craft called the Boeing Starliner. That trip did not go as ...

Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests.

Mad cow disease could have come from outer space, according to two professors. Alien organisms may have reached Earth among debris from falling comets then been eaten by grazing cattle ...

I was so bad it was good. This is the common observation for Plan 9 From Outer Space, which is known as the “worst film in cinema history.” Today we “celebrate” 65 years to the day that ...

A giant hot ring has crashed down to Earth and experts believe that it has come from space. Made of metal and weighing half a tonne, the bizarre object landed in a remote village in Kenya, ...

One tech company operating in outer space saw its share price rise more than 90% over the past year through Jan. 22. That company is Planet Labs (NYSE: PL), which delivers satellite data about the ...

One of the main challenges faced by these future missions will be the need to protect astronauts from the intense radiation of outer space. Today, however, space agencies are taking different ...

The photos, taken on Friday, show the hills of Los Angeles County lit up from outer space. Since Tuesday, multiple wildfires in Southern California have burned through at least 39,000 acres — an ...