The Latest Breaking News on Space

In a recent study, a team of researchers from Japan discussed strategies to observe and possibly predict precursor signatures for an explosion from Local Type II and Galactic supernovae.

This would be the third launch attempt for the Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA.

The ultralight structures would operate self-sufficiently in the long term by producing and recycling their own oxygen and food

Amateur astronomers from across the country, including cities such as Coimbatore and Bengaluru, are taking part in the first stargazing trip to Hanle, Ladakh — India’s first Dark Sky Reserve

A fascinating image of Jupiter at it's clearest has been captured by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy in his back garden, as the planet stood only 367million miles away from Earth

The DART mission doesn't have much aboard — and that's kind of the point.

NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California…

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA announced Thursday that the cryogenic fueling test this week at Kennedy Space Center did well enough to keep moving toward a launch attempt as early as Tuesday.