India plans to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040 as part of its ambitious roadmap to establish a long-term presence ...

The darkest time of the year is the winter solstice, the day with the least sunlight and the longest night. However, the ...

SpaceX's Starship megarocket is set to takeoff on its sixth uncrewed flight test as early as Monday evening from Boca Chica, ...

President-elect Donald Trump's second term, alongside SpaceX CEO and new consigliere Elon Musk, could mark a Big Bang for the ...

In the earliest moments of the Universe, the first photons were trapped in a sea of ionized gas. They scattered randomly with ...

A group of international scientists contends that planting trees at high latitudes will accelerate global warming rather than ...

China's Chang'e 8 mission to test resource technologies at the moon's south pole is taking shape — and may even include a ...

Astronauts, state representatives and engineers gathered in celebration on a wide-open field at Johnson Space Center on ...

Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...