Space

2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.

Scientists have pushed the Milky Way's early history back more than 2 billion years: to less than 800 million years after the Big Bang.

SpinLaunch has a working prototype successfully launching objects at 1,000 miles-per-hour, but will the laws of physics stand in the way?

Twin exoplanets 218 light years from Earth may be the first known examples of “water worlds.”

For a long time, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars. But NASA's discovered another.

NASA has announced plans to launch the world’s first asteroid-hunting spacecraft — the $1.2 billion NEO Surveyor — in 2028.

A lunar lander built by Japanese aerospace startup ispace is poised to be the first private spacecraft to soft land on the moon.

A massive, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite located in Somalia contains two new minerals never seen before in nature.

If the black holes that form in our cosmos give birth to baby Universes, perhaps we arose from the formation of a black hole ourselves.

3.4 billion years ago, an asteroid impact created a megatsunami on Mars that extended for 1500 kilometers. Here's the fascinating story.