Space

Neutron-star mergers could create hypermassive neutron stars that are the fastest spinning stars in the universe.

SpaceX’s fifth Falcon Heavy rocket is set for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a twilight launch window Sunday opening at 5:56 p.m. EST (2255 GMT) with a U.S. Space Force communications satellite and a rideshare spacecraft hosting five military payloads. The Falcon Heavy’s two reusable side boosters […]

A new search for alien signals focuses on planetary transits, when exoplanets pass right in front of their suns.

The carriage that will carry the chopsticks mechanism up and down the Florida Starship launch pad tower was rotated vertical and lifted on to a support structure on Jan. 7, 2023.

During an event hosted by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington Friday, representatives from the United States and Japan gathered to sign an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between the two nations.

With the James Webb Space Telescope safely at work, a leading scientist offers glimpses of what could come next.

With a Last Quarter Moon in the morning, dark skies allow for faint targets from January 13 to 20.

NASA has selected Shawn Quinn as manager of the Exploration Ground Systems program based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, effective Sunday, Jan. 15.

As solar activity ramps up, two giant active regions of the sun are moving to face Earth, bringing with them an increased possibility of violent space weather.

ABL Space Systems’ first RS1 rocket fell back on its launch pad at Kodiak Island, Alaska, shortly after liftoff on the company’s first orbital launch attempt, destroying the rocket and damaging the ground facility, officials said Wednesday.