Latest articles by Meghan Bartels
It's been a full year since the United Arab Emirates made history when its first-ever interplanetary mission slipped into orbit around Mars.
India plans to give landing on the moon a second try with its Chandrayaan 3 mission, which is now targeted to launch in August.
Scientists spotted two space rocks that may be Earth's freshest asteroid neighbors, but have to wait until 2033 to see them again.
The end of the International Space Station is inevitable — and complicated.
NASA is preparing for the day its astronauts explore the south pole of the moon by heading underwater with the lights out.
NASA won't roll its first moon-bound megarocket out to the launch pad any earlier than March, again delaying the launch of its Artemis 1 mission.
Today (Feb. 1) marks a new moon and the first day of a new lunar year.
Scientists have spotted the first evidence of an alien world with an atmosphere that's layered like Earth's — although perhaps a little too toasty for human tastes.
As Comet Leonard bid farewell to Earth and flew past Venus, a sun-studying spacecraft flew through the comet's long tail, giving humans a new perspective on the icy wanderer.
The first animals reached space in 1947, but it wasn't until 1960 that animals orbited Earth and landed safely.
Three months after launch, a new NASA asteroid spacecraft is still getting settled into its life beyond Earth.
It's been a busy four years for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the scientists who seek planets in its data.
Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.
NASA's International Space Station team is eager to stick with the orbiting laboratory until 2030.
NASA's massive new observatory has notched another milestone.
Scientists have gotten a close look at an extreme case of seasons, thanks to a retired NASA telescope.
Laika, a Moscow street dog, became the first creature to orbit Earth, but she died in space.
Time for another tantalizing glimpse of what alien solar systems might look like.
NASA may need more astronauts to meet its human spaceflight goals over the coming years, according to a new report from the agency's investigative office.
Astronomers have found evidence of a black hole snacking on a star in data gathered back in the 1980s, according to new research.
Another kind of countdown hit New York City's Times Square Friday (Jan. 7) as a commercial spaceflight company celebrated joining the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Unfolding the two side wings of the James Webb Space Telescope's golden primary mirror marks the last major task in assembling the observatory.
It's much easier for scientists to see the messy aftermath of stellar explosions than to watch the prelude to the drama.
