The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies. In the high-altitude desert of northern Chile sits the Atacama Large ...

Beneath Greenland's frozen surface lies a Cold War mystery uncovered by NASA scientists. Here's how a forgotten military ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...

Since launching its first batch of Starlink internet satellites in 2019, SpaceX now has more than 8,000 of them operating in low-Earth orbit, with a long-term plan to expand the constellation to as ...

A 3.5-gallon volume of deep space, specifically within the Milky Way's Orion-Cygnus Arm, would contain approximately 4 million neutrinos and about 13,000 gas atoms, predominantly hydrogen and helium.

Northrop Grumman is developing the Space Force's Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, which will track activity in geosynchronous orbit. The Space Force’s deep-space radar hit a testing milestone in ...

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...