Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, Sally, about the life of astronaut Sally Ride.

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

The Space Force’s new dress uniform saw its first official use with the graduation of newly commissioned officers from Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., on Thursday, a base ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is now in orbit, the company behind it has said. Blue Skies Space, a space ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has begun awarding prototype contracts for space-based interceptors, an early step in the Pentagon’s push to field its planned Golden Dome missile defense ...

Hayli Gubbi, a shield volcano in northern Ethiopia, erupted for several hours on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 23 — the first eruption since the start of the Holocene. When you purchase through links on ...

With NASA's International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a frenzied race for the world's first commercial space station. Haven-1—a mini ...

SpaceX successfully launched its Bandwagon-4 mission on Sunday, sending 18 satellites into low-Earth orbit using its trusty Falcon 9 rocket. The mission’s highlight was the successful deployment of ...

WASHINGTON — Quantum Space says it plans to launch its first Ranger spacecraft in mid-2026 to demonstrate its capabilities for national security missions. The company announced Oct. 22 that its Ranger ...

Giovanna Prout joins Countable Labs as CEO to accelerate commercialization of Countable Labs’ products Countable Labs, the developer of Countable PCR, a category-defining PCR technology that sets a ...