SpaceX is launching satellites into space by the dozens to realize Starlink, a globe-encircling constellation of spacecraft that beam affordable, high-speed internet across Earth.
There's more than 800 Starlink satellites in orbit now. Read More
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have launched to the International Space Station just ahead of and to extend 20 years of a continuous human presence in Earth… Read More
Half the award goes to Roger Penrose, with the rest split between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for work revealing the “darkest secrets of the universe” Read More
NASA has built a brand new system that could make landing on Moon and Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to… Read More
In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth.
The unprecedented discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf star suggests it’s possible for planets to survive the tumultuous death throes of their… Read More
Dynetics has built a full-scale mock-up of the lander it hopes will soon be carrying NASA astronauts to the moon. Read More
In 1835 French philosopher Auguste Comte asserted that nobody would ever know what the stars were made of. Read More
An analytical breakthrough that could significantly improve our chances of finding extra-terrestrial life in our galaxy has been discovered by a team at The University of Manchester. Read More
