During a mission to study Mars’ moon Phobos, a spacecraft began malfunctioning just as it approached its target. Before ...

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...

The findings will help scientists refine theoretical models of magnetic reconnection to better understand how solar storms ...

There are more moon missions, new ultra-powerful telescopes, groundbreaking probes and more reasons to keep your eyes on the ...

Obituaries are offering rare, concrete detail about who the researchers were—and how abruptly their lives ended.

A young anti-gravity scientist was discovered dead after stating her life could be at risk, marking another case amongst a ...

We’ve sent thousands of things into space over the years! Many of them just orbit the Earth, and some are flying out past the edges of the Solar System. In this episode, we present our favorite ...

Before a solar storm races across space and impacts technology on Earth, it starts with an explosive process on the Sun known as magnetic reconnection.

Luna-10 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 31, 1966, ripping a noisy, smoke-trailed path through the wide steppe sky ...

Multiple scientists tied to U.S. military and defense research have disappeared or died, prompting questions about whether a ...

On April 6, 2026, NASA's Orion spacecraft cruised around the Moon, armed to the teeth with vehicle management computers around 20,000 times faster than those used to achieve an even greater feat ...