The Latest Breaking News on Space

Space is hard: Moon missions have historically had a 40-60% failure rate, with sample return and robotic-lander missions having the highest failure rates. Apollo 13's mission was a success despite not achieving its primary objective. Orbiter missions have the lowest failure rate. The 1950s had the highest failure rate, while…

Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic tug of war between Haley's Coronet and its neighboring dwarf galaxy. The gravitational tussle is one the smaller galaxy is bound to lose. That could ultimately result in a merger between the two.

Here we explore how long it takes to get to the moon and the factors that affect the journey to our rocky companion.

The European Space Agency is guiding its Aeolus wind-studying satellite to a destructive atmospheric reentry this week. Here's when and where it's expected to happen.

NASA has awarded $150 million to advance the development of potentially revolutionary exploration technologies, including systems that could power outposts on the moon.

R Sculptoris will eventually paint the sky with a planetary nebula, scattering elements that will form new star systems..

A chemical mapping technique has revealed details of the Milky Way's spiral arms that have, until now, been obscured. This allows astronomers to see new regions of our galaxy that hold an abundance of young stars.

The European Space Agency released a video titled "Life of Aeolus," a musical piece written for a small wind ensemble based on one year of wind data collected by the Aeolus satellite.

NASA's Mission Control in Houston had a power outage Tuesday (July 25) and briefly lost contact with the International Space Station. No astronauts were in any danger, officials said.