NASA’s latest announcement about its Perseverance rover has reignited both scientific curiosity and ethical debates. The rover, currently exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars, has detected mineral ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered a rare pair of "Odd Radio Circles" overlapping in space.

Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...

A new discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists fresh insight into Venus and its potential to host life ...

As space agencies race to set foot on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere, a not-so-glamorous problem could be the key to success: ...

One of Virginia’s crown jewels of tourist attractions, the Discovery Space Shuttle, could be blasting off somewhere else as U ...

Funding for the move of a space shuttle orbiter from the Smithsonian to a Houston museum continues to stir debate among senators.

A new book and documentary from James Bluemel tells the story of the space race so far in photographs, a mix of images from ...