China is going full throttle in its quest to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. That was clearly evident in an Aug. 15 ...

Its successors will be even bigger and more powerful. In a livestreamed Starship update this past May, Musk said that the ...

Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, ...

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-40, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, at 7:10 a.m.

"Starship’s tenth flight test provided valuable data by stressing the limits of vehicle capabilities and providing maximum ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

"Our results don't solve the mystery of the Wow! Signal, but they give us the clearest picture yet of what it was and where ...

Antarctica is an isolated, confined environment similar to those that might be on future moon or Mars bases. More than 40 ...

To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a solar eclipse by ...

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

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Stargazers will need a clear view of the western horizon to spot the moon near Spica as the sun sets on Aug. 27.