The Apollo program that led to the historic moon landing took a lot of time, effort, and money. The cost is a hefty sum that ...

The study suggests that planets closest to their stars, especially those that orbit their stars in just 12 days or less, are at a higher risk of being sent to their doom by their aging suns.

Most people learned in school that Mercury is just a small, scorched planet close to the Sun. But NASA’s MESSENGER mission ...

Jeffrey Kluger's "Gemini" argues that the program was more milestone than stepping stone in the 1960s space race.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launched NASA's ESCAPADE mission, the first to take a long and unusual route to planet Mars.

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

NASA's giant Mars Antenna failure hinders spacecraft communication and asteroid studies amid the federal government shutdown.

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...