Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket — along with a Tesla Roadster. Here's what you need to know about the car.
It has been 25 years since the first exoplanet was discovered, but the thousands that have been found since have all been inside our own galaxy.
The SpaceX CEO also confirmed Sunday night the much-delayed maiden launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket was still scheduled for Tuesday.
India’s second moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, is scheduled for an April launch and will include an orbiter, a lander and a solar-powered rover.
The NASA satellite IMAGE may have lost touch with Earth because of a power reboot, halting its research into auroras and other parts of the planet’s magnetosphere.
NASA released an image Thursday, made from combining Hubble and Spitzer data, showing Arp 142, a pair of distant galaxies that are interacting with each other.
Following the merger of two galaxies, the supermassive black hole at the center could be consuming stars at a rate 10,000 times faster than previous predictions.
The movement of satellite galaxies around larger galaxies like the Milky Way or Centaurus A is far more orderly than simulations based on the standard cosmological predict.
The IMAGE satellite was launched in March 2000 to study Earth’s magnetosphere, for an initial period of two years, but its mission was extended till it was declared lost.
Japan’s space agency JAXA is recruiting volunteers for a simulated space station experiment which will pay $3,500 for two weeks of work.
After numerous delays, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Saturday on Twitter the latest fixed date for the maiden flight of what will be the world’s most powerful rocket at present.
Embracing the private sector's innovations will allow America to conquer the universe's farthest reaches.
Since the NASA spacecraft entered an orbit around Jupiter in July 2016, Juno has sent back several breathtaking photographs of the largest planet in the solar system.
A bunch of uncommon things all happening at the same time mean this full moon will have some special attributes.
Growing edible microbes out of human waste could be a way for astronauts to quickly make food without expending a lot of energy, water or space.
Google appears to be testing a new tool that not only lets users know that their Android device is running out of storage, but also helps them uninstall some unused apps.
InSight is scheduled to launch from a launch facility on the California coast in May 2018, and if it isn’t delayed, will land on the surface of Mars in November.
Till now, most methods looking for specific chemical signatures on other planets search for plentiful oxygen as a sign of life existing on them.
The night of Jan. 31 will feature not just a super blue blood moon, but also an eclipse, giving astronomers an unusual chance to study the surface of the moon.
None of the four remaining contenders are in the position to send a rover to the moon before March 31, and Google said Monday it won’t extend the deadline again.
Many moons and planets in our solar system have ice, some of it water ice, on them.
The first ever merger of two neutron stars was observed in August, an event that also sent gravitational waves rippling through the universe.