With the upcoming launch, SpaceX is eager to prove Starship V3’s readiness for more ambitious test flights, including an important orbital refueling experiment considered a stepping stone toward ...

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples suggests life's building blocks formed in frozen outer Solar System, not warm asteroid ...

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago has launched a groundbreaking experiment in search of ultrahigh-energy ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

A NASA image of the snow-dusted Grand Canyon has created a striking optical illusion, making the vast chasm—more than a mile ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is attempting one of the rarest kinds of experiments ever tried on Mars, a painstaking chemical test that uses a limited supply of liquid reagents to hunt for traces of complex ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove ...

Programme for ‘peaceful use of outer space’ launched in 2020 is seen as potential rival to US Space Force’s X-37B.

Nuclear policy experts, Joseph Rodgers and Doreen Horschig, offer three ways by which arms control can reform itself to ...