Space

Black holes are perhaps the strangest, least-understood objects in our universe. With so much potential — being linked to everything from wormholes to new baby universes — they have sucked in physicists for decades. 

Scientists should be able to create magnetic fields on Earth that rival the strength of those seen in black holes and neutron stars, a new study suggests. 

SpaceX’s next astronaut launch for NASA won’t fly on Halloween after all.

In the coming decades, multiple space agencies plan to return astronauts to the Moon (or to send them there for the first time) and mount the first crewed missions to Mars. Between that and the explosive growth we are seeing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), there is no doubt that […]

NASA has delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission until early- to mid-November, the agency announced Saturday. The mission eventually will bring three NASA astronauts and an astronaut from Japan’s JAXA space agency to the International Space Station.

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu continues to reveal its secrets to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which has been orbiting the space rock for nearly two years. 

“The Right Stuff” lifts off with a countdown to a liftoff.

How NASA’s InVEST program is yielding big dividends for future Earth-observing missions

One of winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is only the fourth woman to win the prestigious award, NASA is working on new lunar spacesuits and artificial intelligence helped restore Apollo lunar movies. These are some of the top stories this week from Space.com.