The Latest Breaking News on Space

Dreams of space travel started small with the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union, and escalated with the U.S. Apollo landing on the moon in 1969. Six decades later, plans are ramping up for space tourism, missions to the moon and Mars, and mining on the moon.

For a few minutes on Jan. 26, 20 people were in space at the same time, tying a record set just last May.

Exciting discovery in space: Astronomers find a super earth in a habitable zone, potentially hosting life. NASA's new mission to study Earth's oceans and a...

Newly released NASA footage shows the second test flight of SpaceX's giant Starship rocket in dramatic detail.

Two astronomy books from the Renaissance have found their way to a new home, where students will try to read a possible hidden text within one of them.

Observations of bright galaxies in the early universe could indicate that black holes were driving star formation and galaxy growth just 50 million years after the Big Bang.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has seen Jupiter's volcanic moon Io like never before, catching active eruptions, lava flows, and a side to the solar system's most volcanic body not seen in 35 years.

Due to an unexpected error in the Flight Data Subsystem of the Voyager 1, NASA's longest-operating probe is no longer able to provide telemetry data needed for basic control of the spacecraft.

A sunspot so big it was seen from the surface of Mars last week has now turned to face Earth, bringing an increased chance of unsettled space weather with Earth in the firing line.

SpaceX astronauts with Axiom Space decided to leave behind a special snack for the International Space Station crew, shortly after National Peanut Butter Day in the United States.

China's Chang'e-5 moon samples are giving scientists new insights into the history of our moon.