Big Tech companies including Nvidia and Elon Musk's SpaceX are making large bets on a new layer of critical infrastructure ...

The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

On March 22, 1997, a super bright comet by the name of Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft possibly surviving re-entry.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Another day, another ambitious company emerges to harness the power of the Sun from Earth's orbit. Okay, it's not quite that common an occurrence, but there are indeed a number of firms giving this a ...

A 2011 astronaut photo shows off a series of colorful mini-lakes that appeared around the edge of a giant salt flat, known as the Etosha Pan, following a major flooding event.

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t pose a threat to life Earth’s magnetic field surrounds the planet, with ...