'It's no secret that China has a goal to surpass the United States by 2045 as global leaders in space. We can't allow this to happen.'

A research team from USC Dornsife has made significant discoveries regarding the drastic changes caused by a surge in greenhouse gases and escalating temperatures, which resulted in a mass extinction event, paving the way for the emergence of Jurassic dinosau…

tarfleet had a base on Mars, as evidenced by an image captured by NASA's Curiosity rover. Here's the truth of what the photo actually shows

Wells Fargo automotive analyst says Tesla ‘screens the most at risk’ this earnings season, and he sees various challenges for the year ahead

NASA will host a pair of news conferences Thursday, Jan. 25, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to

A year-long delay in a planned mission to send astronauts to orbit the moon prompts worries among members of Congress.

NASA’s Stardust mission returned rocky material from the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2 (pronounced ‘Vilt 2’) to Earth on January 15, 2006.

During a House House Science, Space & Technology Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) questioned NASA officials and other experts about...

New model tracks the remains of a star looping around a black hole.

The state was reached for a fraction of a second but it is a crucial stepping stone.

Scientists in China have created a mutant strain of COVID-19 in a lab that has a 100% death rate for mice with human genes.

Apple today seeded the release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 17.3 and iPadOS 17.3 updates to developers and public beta testers, with the...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future.

A Kentucky city has come up with an out-of-this-world campaign to promote tourism. The Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau used an infrared laser to beam a message into space to invite extraterrestrial travelers. The message begins by describing the “lus…

Alligator superpowers are real.

Metalenses have been used to image microscopic features of tissue and resolve details smaller than a wavelength of light. Now they are going bigger.

A new modeling study helps confirm that key connections in the brain are formed in the same way across different animal species, likely including humans.

Apple TV+'s alternate space race, "For All Mankind," imagines what would have have happened if USSR cosmonauts, and not NASA's astronauts, had been the first to land on the moon. Rather than the waning of interest in space that followed the moon landings in o…

A team of psychologists, social scientists, philosophers and evolutionary researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found evidence suggesting that the slight advantage males have in navigation ability is likely due to differences in th…

Sedimentary and planetary geologist Michael Thorpe finds the stories rocks have to tell, those on Earth and those from Mars.

Japanese start-up EX-FUSION plans to use a powerful laser pulse to literally stop space junk in its tracks, safely de-orbiting it.

A significant breakthrough in understanding Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) involving supermassive black holes has been discovered. The new simulations, for the first time ever, accurately replicate the entire sequence of a TDE from stellar disruption to the p…

The awesome, confounding James Webb Space Telescope observations scientists are scrambling to make sense of.