The Trump administration is reportedly considering a push to privatize space exploration. Will the old guard in Washington go along?
During a series of tests of the new ballistic missile defense interceptor conducted by the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency from 2010-2016, the interceptors missed their targets several times.
The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs is in talks with Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corporation to provide an infrastructure giving the UN access to outer space.
Jeff Bezos' secretive Blue Origin space firm yesterday became the first to launch a rocket into space and guide it safely back to a landing on earth, ushering in the long-anticipated era of the reusable rocket.
Some scientists want to send messages into space in the hope of piquing alien interest. But might it attract the kind of attention no civilization wants?
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A huge asteroid that could wipe out human life is heading for our planet. And it's just one of more than a half million near-Earth objects in our solar system.
On July 20, 1969 three U.S. astronauts landed on the moon, and now NASA wants to go to Mars — for all the benefits — disregarding all the costs.
Google has expanded its ability to keep an eye on everyone by buying "eye-in-the-sky" technology from Skybox.
Two House Democrats on Monday pitched a bill that would establish a national historical park on the lunar surface.
On May 29 Planetary Resources, one of two private concerns hoping to someday mine near-earth asteroids, announced plans for the first-ever crowdfunded space telescope, a venture that would allow private researchers to conduct space research using a private space telescope.
A recent deep space discovery is calling into question scientific assumptions that have been taken for granted for generations. The scale of one Large Quasar Group (LQG) is massive — in fact, scientists estimate its size at approximately four billion light years across. But even more significantly, it also appears to be unique, and thus fundamentally challenges the assumption that the universe is homogeneous, lacking any significant variation in observable phenomena wherever one may happen to look.