In 2003, Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut to travel to space, reported hearing a strange, unexplained knocking sound while orbiting Earth aboard China’s Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. The event was ...

Our solar system’s third discovered interstellar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas, will dip into the glare of the Sun this week, leaving the detective work on this object to spacecraft far from Earth.

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

In a report titled “The Destruction of NASA’s Mission,” Senate Democrats claim NASA is preemptively carrying out “devastating” cuts by order of the Trump administration.

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...