Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is ...

Scientists have found mysterious space-gum vital to creating life in an asteroid sample. Sugars essential for biology have ...

Starlink is growing fast, and SpaceX has filed paperwork for as many as 42,000 satellites. Others such as OneWeb, Amazon, ...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio ...

Reduce, reuse, recycle—in space!

W ith around five years left to go before it leaves Earth's orbit and is crashed into the ocean, NASA has announced that the ...

Supernova PTF 11kly, a Type Ia supernova located 21 million light-years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), was detected within hours of its explosion, representing the closest such event observed in ...

The U.S. has entered a new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, ...