The Latest Breaking News on Space

Japan's DESTINY+ mission to 3200 Phaethon, the parent body of the famous Geminid meteor shower, will have to wait a bit longer to get off the ground.

As it turns out, it takes a good deal of planning, patience and, well, Perseverance, to create a cake in the shape of a NASA Mars rover. Just ask Duff Goldman.

A new video shows the Artemis 2 moon mission's boosters under assembly. The solid rocket boosters are being made at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ahead of the 2024 launch with four astronauts.

Data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite was used to map surface heights of the planet's oceans and freshwater lakes and rivers.

The Netherlands and Iceland have signed the Artemis Accords, bringing the number of nations in the moon-exploration pact to 31.

On November 6, 1572, German astronomer Wolfgang Schuler of Wittenberg observed what he believed was a new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. On November 11, it was spotted by famed Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about this “new star,” which we now know was a supernova…

An imaginary starship trip beyond the solar system to the edge of the Milky Way offers new perspectives on the wonders of space

To understand how galaxies evolve, astronomers want to use JWST to peer into the Milky Way's core.

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died

Lucy mission encounters a binary pair as it flies past half-mile-wide asteroid Dinkinesh

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope spotted a seven exoplanet system with worlds being battered by radiation from their parent sun-like star just before its retirement in 2018.