On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its ... only enough space shuttle missions to complete construction of the International Space Station were initially planned before the shuttle fleet ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to rise off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, carrying a load that cannot be weighed with conventional scales. When the seven astronauts ride the ...

A curious question sparked a cosmic deep dive into why light never tires—even after 25 million years on the move.

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

Zamani (ESA/Hubble) This month sees a very special birthday: the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The venerable old space telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, so now is the ...

A recent image captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers a dazzling view of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), visible ...

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 ...

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers ...