The Latest Breaking News on Space

Using ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scientists have observed nightglow in Mars' atmosphere, a phenomenon where the night sky glows green, almost like an aurora.

The European Space Agency is slated to launch a satellite in 2030 that's meant to probe the nature of dark matter.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new view of a distant spiral galaxy whose star-studded arms are all tangled up.

Read what the stars mean for you today, from Scorpio to Gemini

Aspiring astronauts can build their own spacesuit.

NASA, ISRO's NISAR to launch in Jan 2024. Mission to survey Earth's land/ice-covered surfaces every 12 days. Tests, incl. vibration, pending. NISAR to map entire globe, provide data to understand changes in ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, natural hazards.

Scientists suspect that comets may have delivered the key ingredients for life on Earth, and new research outlines how exoplanets could have received these deliveries, too.

One long-standing theory for how the molecular material for life ended up on Earth is that it could have been delivered by comets.

NASA has begun construction has started on SPHEREx, a new extraordinary mission that will map the sky in unprecedented detail and color.

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen was also the first to impact Earth's upper ionosphere, a new study suggests.

Science data from a damaged balloon-borne telescope was salvaged, thanks to old-fashioned SD drives.