The space agency is looking to maintain human presence in the microgravity environment as it transitions to commercial stations.

The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades.

SpaceX is gearing up to send a duo of landers to the Moon this January.

As a result of the failure, Japan's private sector has yet to independently place a satellite in Earth orbit.

The incident raises concerns about companies failing to disclose issues during commercial spaceflight missions.

Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story told in lunar rocks.

An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' evolution.

The crew launched to the ISS in June for a week-long mission but will end up spending an unplanned nine months in space.

From black hole jets to auroras on Mars, this year had plenty of astrophysical wonder.

The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went dark earlier this year.

This year, private space companies were put to the test. Some thrived under pressure, while others crashed and burned.

The research team says it’s time to “think outside the box” since nothing else is working.

Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.

The rover trekked nearly 2,000 feet to get out of the crater, where it will explore a 4-billion-year-old environment.

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.

A survey of Sun-like stars found that they produce a superflare roughly once per century.

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar system's origins.

Starship's upper stage survived reentry and splashed down in the Indian Ocean following the rocket's sixth test flight.

The intrepid Mars helicopter broke down in January 2024, and the space agency now knows why.

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of energetic particles, raising questions about its identity.