The Latest Breaking News on Space

Europe's Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter missions captured a variety of cryptic surface features poking through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole as spring hit the region.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope had to race against time to image a young exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade.

The inside-out growth of this ancient galaxy could teach us something about the history of our own Milky Way and how it compares to the rest of the universe.

$5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth’s water is habitable

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? If our solar system turns out to be home to two habitable worlds (Europa and Earth), "think of what that means when you extend that result to the billions and billions of other solar systems in this galaxy,"…

See the latest updates for the launch of NASA's Europa Clipper to Jupiter's icy moon here.

It is the latest engineering milestone in the company's efforts to develop a reusable vehicle for missions to the moon and Mars

SpaceX launched its enormous Starship rocket for the fifth time ever today (Oct. 13), on a dramatic test flight that featured a mid-air catch of the first-stage Super Heavy booster.

SpaceX has launched its enormous Starship rocket on its boldest test flight yet, catching it with mechanical arms back at the pad

SpaceX launches enormous rocket on boldest test flight yet, catching returning booster back at pad with mechanical arms.

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035.