The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

A cargo resupply spacecraft is on its way back to Earth from the International Space Station, where it will make a fiery reentry Saturday, March 14.

A New Mexico startup revealed its plans to deliver sunlight to satellites in orbit, helping power the spacecraft during times ...

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created ...

The probe was one of two launched in 2012 from Florida to study Earth's hazardous Van Allen radiation belts. NASA states that while some components may survive re-entry, the risk of harm to anyone on ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

A Vienna-based startup has raised $4 million to scale a software platform that generates synthetic satellite data for ...

We’ve had things that have reentered have a 1 in 1,000 chance, and nothing happened; if we have a few that are 1 in 4,000 or ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

The powerful emission, known as a gigamaser, was discovered using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.