Given his lifelong obsession with rockets and the survival of human consciousness beyond Earth, it is fitting that Musk’s ...

Twists like Darth Vader's reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, or the ending of The Mist, are among the greatest and most ...

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The ...

The wolf moon, the first full moon of the year, will ring in 2026, gracing the sky this weekend, but the lunar event will make the Quadrantid meteor shower a bit harder to spot. The silvery orb will ...

Space Forge is on a mission to manufacture semiconductors in space—no humans required. And on Wednesday the U.K.-based aerospace startup announced that it had taken a major step toward that goal by ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem. When you purchase through links on our ...

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...

NEW ORLEANS — A proposal by the Trump administration to dismantle a leading atmospheric science center would also have implications for space science. The White House announced Dec. 16 it would direct ...

Peacock has confirmed that the science-fiction drama Ad Astra will be added to its streaming library at the beginning of 2026. The movie, led by Brad Pitt, is set to arrive on the platform on January ...

Spike your eggnog and relax with our list of the finest flicks of the year about invasive AI, soaring superheroes, and Lovecraftian horrors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

From eclipses on demand to a rare interstellar visitor to the chances of Earth being flung out of orbit, some news in 2025 made us ponder our place in the universe. Here’s a look at some of our ...