Who's up for a historic late-night launch? Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a spacecraft carrying the first people to ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.