The Latest Breaking News on Space

NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat motionless on a dune on Feb. 4.

The 59-year-old has spent the equivalent of almost two and a half years in space

Scientists’ 10-year hunt reveals a nursery of stars, and a surprising grandparent

The futuristic $1.9bn Vera C Rubin Observatory took nine years to build and will survey the night sky in unprecedented detail

Russian surpasses compatriot Gennady Padalka after logging more than 878 days at the international space station

NASA's PACE satellite, which will help scientists gauge the health of oceans around the world, is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early on Feb. 6.

On February 4, 2010, NASA released a set of images that were the most detailed ever taken until then of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. Before the New Horizons spacecraft explored Pluto, getting a closer look at it was no easy task. A.S.Ganesh tells you how scientists managed it nevertheless…

On Episode 96 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss the science on television with History Channel producer Jeff Stepp.

A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun's fiery surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun.