Russia has patented an anti-gravity space station that would allow astronauts to live and work without floating. The Russian state rocket company Energia has submitted plans for a space base that ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

At 2:23 am Eastern time on March 19, 2025, an astronaut aboard the International Space station (ISS) captured a striking ...

Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

The swirling lights have been seen across the UK and have caused much debate among those who have witnessed the strange ...

Of the four mice involved in a recent mission aboard China's space station, one female has now successfully birthed healthy ...

Looking for something to do in the days between Christmas and New Year's? Here's how to watch SpaceX's final rocket launch of ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.