A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

That's it for our rolling coverage of today's space launch from the Gobi Desert. Thank you for following along. Scroll back through to relive the moment of lift-off and all our updates from the ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly.

(Ball Aerospace) The Space Force said Thursday its newest weather satellite is now operational and will soon be collecting and sharing key weather data with military planners and operators.

China has launched a three-person crew to the Tiangong space station for the next six-month mission, which will see them carry out experiments on developing artificial brain models and the ...

Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based aerospace company, is developing a compact fusion engine called the Dual Direct Fusion Drive that could drastically change space exploration as we know it. This engine ...

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space diplomacy amid a burgeoning battle with the United States for ...

This 1994 Hubble image shows R136, a young stellar cluster in the 30 Doradus Nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. This Hubble snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...

Access to and the ability to operate freely in space are vital to U.S. national interests. This framework presents the United States Space Force (USSF) current body of knowledge pertaining to ...

Space warfighting may include "seeking out and destroying an enemy's spacecraft." The U.S. Space Force continues to prepare to fight a war in Earth's orbit. For years, Space Force has been ...