With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel ...

In 2019, the Hubble team released this image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the telescope's 29th anniversary. It is also among the most massive and luminous X-ray sources in ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made off the coast of Tenerife, Spain, marking the first time a Black Devil Fish (Melanocetus johnsonii) has been sighted alive near the ocean's ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

Several missions under contracts with NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program are planned for this year.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The ...

The startup’s next step is launching two fully operational satellites this year, with an ambition to build in-orbit computing ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...