SPACE

The binary star systems either shrink or break apart — as in the case of the sun — within a million years after being born, a new study asserts.

Privately owned Moon Express is planning to bring back a scoop of lunar soil — and sell it for profit.

The most massive galaxies in the universe tend to cluster together and the orientation of those galaxies is aligned with other matter in their surroundings.

That's in addition to another 96 newly discovered space rocks and an unexplained increase in comet activity.

The Cassini spacecraft has sent back a ton of images and data to NASA and Earth during its time in the outer solar system. Here’s a look back at some of the most amazing photos.

The artists at NASA who create concept art to accompany announcements use real data to do so.

If humans start a Mars colony and live there for generations, will their descendants ever be able to visit Earth? Not if they eat too many insects along the way.

NASA has expressed concerns about SpaceX’s plans to fuel rockets with humans on board.

Do you have the right stuff? The application and selection process to become a NASA astronaut is a long one — and only a fraction of applicants get chosen.

Gravitational lensing allowed the space telescope to image the galaxies at the peak of the universe’s star-making phase over 8 billion years ago.

These asteroids are fragile, but the possibility exists that they may penetrate the atmosphere and seriously collide with earth. The danger of a crash with an asteroid grows every few years when the Earth encounters this new branch.

NASA data shows that flares on red dwarf stars may deplete the potential for life on other planets.

NASA has unveiled a Mars rover concept that looks like the Batmobile and is built to dominate an alien planet.

The risk of astronauts developing cancer might be double what scientists have thought previously because the radiation in space and on Mars makes cells attack one another.

Astronomers discovered a superheated Jupiter-like exoplanet 650 light-years away, orbiting the massive star KELT-9 in the Cygnus constellation.

The Hubble image, released Friday, shows the distant galaxy as it began its transit behind a star and its circumstellar disk of orbiting debris.

Jupiter, Saturn and Venus will be clearly visible this month with no telescope.

A bunch of volunteers found a faint object in space that scientists missed: a brown dwarf that is halfway between a star and a planet.

Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover showed conditions varying among different depths of the lake in Gale Crater on Mars that existed over three billion years ago.

How those black holes grew to their enormous sizes in less than one billion years after the Big Bang is a long-standing problem in astrophysics.

British space companies might have to set up shop in EU countries if they want to keep working with the European Space Agency on certain projects after Brexit.