Space

In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…

The Artemis II mission to the Moon has reignited humanity’s desire for exploration and renewed our perspective of…

Each month WTOP’s “Eyes to the Skies” feature previews the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding…

If the number of satellites in Earth’s orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the…

Topline SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called a recent report the company showed investors a prototype handheld, iPhone-like device…

Around 1,350 light years away from Earth is a star called TOI-2155. It’s a little bigger, heavier and…

Rocket Lab’s $8 billion Iridium deal gives the space company something that cannot be built overnight: a global…

WASHINGTON — A new report links the long-running technical problems with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle to…

For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant…

NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Beginning no earlier than August…

Science & Exploration 01/07/2026 395 views 10 likes An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James…

In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.