UCF Professor Ramses Ramirez believes human exploration can greatly accelerate the search for life. "A human can react ...

Some objects were placed in space on purpose, symbolic gestures meant to inspire or amuse. Others were lost by accident, abandoned or forgotten during ambitious missions.

NASA plans to launch its live-streamed programming on Netflix -- featuring rocket liftoffs, astronaut spacewalks and live ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

NASA intends to land the "first woman and first person of color" on the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. This will be ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

See a time-lapsed view of the NASA Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft, Earth and moon that was captured. Credit: NASA | time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: A Rising Sun by Alan Ellis / courtesy of ...

New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, ...

If successful on Artemis II, the tech could beam 4K video and rich data back to Earth at record speed, proving deep-space ...