Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California May 1 for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...

An upcoming galactic collision is likely to wake the black hole at the center of the Milky Way and turn our home galaxy into a quasar — it could even fling our solar system into intergalactic space, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a unique trio of merging galaxies known as J1218/1219+1035, which is located approximately 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth. This ...

Without this system it is not possible to determine a spaceship’s location precisely enough to engine-firing just right to go into orbit around a distant moon. With this technology, autonomous ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Outer space glows with a bright fog of X-ray light, coming from everywhere at ...

Humans have navigated by starlight for thousands of years, but NASA has a new appreciation for the twinkling bodies in our night sky. Using perfectly timed X-ray flashes from pulsars, scientists are ...

Virgin Galactic has successfully tested its newest spacecraft's "feather" re-entry system for the first time. That's what it calls the mechanism wherein the vehicle folds up its twin tail booms so ...

LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators say they have determined that a space tourism rocket broke apart in flight over California’s Mojave Desert after a device to slow the experimental spaceship’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), the Neutron Star Interior ...

Without this system it is not possible to determine a spaceship’s location precisely enough to engine-firing just right to go into orbit around a distant moon. With this technology, autonomous ...