Andrew Jones

Astronomers have developed a new model for simulating how clusters of baby stars form and evolve, helping to explain how bubbles of ionized gas are created away from the heart of a galaxy.

A new high-resolution map of the moon captures lunar geologic features in incredible detail.

NASA's Lucy mission team is continuing efforts to correct the incomplete deployment of one of the spacecraft's solar arrays as it continues to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon.

Psyche's liftoff has been pushed from Aug. 1 to no earlier than Sept. 20.

Earth's magnetic field may not be heading toward a dramatic flip anytime soon, according to scientists who analyzed anomalies in the planet's invisible shield against solar wind and other radiation.

An international team of astronomers have discovered a second persistently active fast radio burst, posing questions about the nature of the mysterious phenomena.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts are only just settling in for their six-month mission aboard the country's space station, but Shenzhou 15 is already on standby in case of an emergency in orbit.

China has sent its third crew toward the nation's new space station with the launch of the six-month-long Shenzhou 14 mission.

Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping shows how she kept her hair clean while aboard the Tianhe space station module.

A proposed Chinese mission would look for nearby habitable alien worlds by launching a spacecraft to make ultraprecise measurements of how orbiting planets make a star wobble.

China is gearing up to send the third crew to its new Tiangong space station, with launch set for late Saturday (June 4) U.S. Eastern time.

China launched three new test communication satellites to low Earth orbit as the country looks to build its own version of SpaceX's Starlink broadband constellation.

We may have heard the last from China's Zhurong for a while, after the solar-powered Mars rover entered a dormant state due to winter's cold and local sand and dust storms.

China plans to launch a space telescope to survey the skies and investigate distant galaxies, dark matter and dark energy.

The Tianwen 2 mission will sample an asteroid, return to Earth and then head out again to study a second space rock.

Evidence is growing that Mars, now cold and dry, had liquid water running on its surface much more recently than previously thought.

China's Zhurong Mars rover is adjusting to its first winter on the Red Planet while its companion orbiter continues to map the world from above.

China has launched a cargo mission to its Tianhe space station module in preparation for the arrival of a new crew in June.

China could soon begin its first space-based hunt for exoplanets.

China's LinkSpace plans to send a rocket into space and land it safely in late 2022, three years after the startup's last major test.

Scientists at Nanjing University believe they can use compounds found in lunar soil to locally produce oxygen and fuel to support crewed moon missions.

China will launch six major missions before the end of the year to complete its Tiangong space station, which could soon link up with a powerful telescope and host international astronauts.

India's space agency is proceeding very cautiously after the hard landing of its previous lunar lander in 2019.