Space

The official tally of confirmed planets outside our solar system, maintained by NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech,…

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 4:23 p.m.…

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission launched on 28 May of 2025 and is scheduled to arrive at its…

The space industry is gearing up for longer-duration missions to the Moon and beyond, and that requires new…

A tiny frozen world in the outer Solar System has been found to have an atmosphere, making it…

Astronomers have found the most extreme example yet of a black hole outweighing its own galaxy, and it…

NASA chief Jared Isaacman said the orbital economy “has been grossly overstated” and warned of commercial demand beyond…

Just outside Jupiter’s orbit, a ring-shaped region of high gas pressure formed. In this “dust trap,” over several…

Extraterrestrial dust falls on every part of the Earth, including the parts covered in cities. Most of it…

Two Russian cosmonauts worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International Space…

Science Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted NASA’s decision to halt…

SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing…

In 1992, the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system was zero — and as of this year, NASA’s exoplanet archive lists more than 6,000 of them, with the lead scientist on the archive predicting the number could hit 100,000 within the next seven years