The Latest Breaking News on Space

Scientists found an unexpected ratio of hydrogen to deuterium in Venus' atmosphere, offering clues about the world's past.

DART appears to have derailed its asteroid target from its normal evolution progress. The impact also made a crater.

The Challenger and Columbia space shuttle tragedies influenced NASA's thinking on how the Boeing Starliner astronauts should return home, agency officials said.

This planet-sized telescope just took a major step towards delivering the first video ever of a churning supermassive black hole.

A galaxy's outstretched arms form a nearly perfect circle around its central disk in a striking new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Planets that wander deep space, unattached to a star, may form alone from small clumps of gas.

India plans to launch a key test of its Gaganyaan crew vehicle before the end of the year as the country gears up for human spaceflight missions.

The Polaris Dawn mission, organized by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, was set to lift off early Tuesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, but is now targeting early Wednesday after a late technical hitch.

SpaceX has pushed the launch of the historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission back 24 hours, to Wednesday morning (Aug. 28), due to a helium leak.