A Russian plasma engine could cut Mars travel to 30 days with continuous thrust, surpassing ion thrusters. A 300 kW prototype ...

On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

A mum whose heart stopped for 14 minutes has said she felt scared waking up to an empty tummy only to discover she had had a baby while medics did CPR. Doctors at the Royal Stoke Hospital in ...

Thousands of people on Wednesday visited the stalls of the Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela, the most important book fair in Bangladesh, which runs for a month in Dhaka. The event, which began in 1972 ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of an ultraviolet ... This month, Jupiter will appear lined up in the sky alongside Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, in a so-called "planetary parade".

Major General Charles Bolden Jr. spoke about his experience as an astronaut during the Tate Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in ...

As we move into 2025, the field of space exploration is buzzing with exciting missions, new technologies, and a renewed focus ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Four individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...