A consortium launched a crowdfunding campaign for an optical instrument that could search for planets in Alpha Centauri.
The growing space debris problem may have a flip side: What if we could recycle the junk for components of a mission to the Red Planet?
China's newest and biggest heavy-lift rocket was successfully launched today.
A team of ex-NASA scientists is now seeking private funding to scour the Alpha Centauri system for habitable planets.
Elon Musk finally revealed his plans for a mission to Mars today. But a new set of images from SpaceX show the Interplanetary Transport System going even further in the solar system than the Red Planet.
The world’s largest filled single-dish radio telescope launched at the weekend. The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in the southwestern province of Guizhou, China is now operational.
Anchored to a carrier aircraft, Virgin SpaceShip Unity takes to the skies in Mojave, Calif.
One year ago, six volunteers entered a 36-by-20 foot dome, located near a barren volcano in Hawaii, to simulate what living conditions would be like on Mars. Today they re-emerged from their year-long isolation.
Two NASA astronauts successfully installed a new parking spot at the International Space Station today, marking a key step toward accommodating new commercial space taxis that arrive at the orbiting lab.
CHINA is on the brink of launching a groundbreaking new satellite capable of conducting quantum experiments in space, leading some to predict it will usher in the beginning of a new space race.
Future tests will put the New Shepard spacecraft through more rigors before people fly aboard.
The ISS is getting an incredible new tool: a handheld DNA sequencer. The questions scientists hope it will answer include whether life exists beyond our planet and just what is that weird fungus growing on the wall of the space station?
The Asian country has embarked upon a long-term plan to colonize the Moon. The Long March 7 rocket has lifted off on Saturday from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.
A few months back, Luxembourg announced its intention to become a leader in asteroid mining. Now, Luxembourg has revealed the first step in its plan to fill the banking vaults with space-grade platinum: a small, water-powered spacecraft.
It takes a bold person to declare that interstellar travel is now within our grasp. Physicist Stephen Hawking has shown that he is just that, taking part in the Breakthrough Starshot initiative.
