The Latest Breaking News on Space

NASA's extrasolar planet hunter TESS is pausing observations while it works to recover and go back to finding distant worlds.

The National Science Foundation has announced it will not rebuild a renowned radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which was one of the world’s largest until it collapsed nearly two years ago

On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called Dimorphos.

Operators of the Arnhem Space Centre in the remote Northern Territory are being sued by the company's former chief executive, who claims its current director made comments that were racist and discriminatory towards women.

NASA reiterated on November 3 that its upcoming lunar mission is still set to launch on Monday, November 14 at 12:07 a.m. Eastern from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will begin rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it was stowed during Hurricane Ian, at…

In a fresh image released by the Webb Telescope team on October 12, one can see 17 strangely perfect light rings around star binary WR 140 emanating into the darkness of deep space.

Astronomers reveal how the spectacular rings surrounding a pair of stars captured in a surreal image by the James Webb Space Telescope were created.

Tito’s wife plans to join him on the weeklong trip, but the launch date has yet to be determined.

It's not clear how much Dennis Tito paid for the seats.