One of the images from a series of 10 photoshoots by NASA astronaut Don Petit and nigh-sky photographer and National ...

Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race ...

For a quarter of a century, humans have continuously occupied the International Space Station. Here's a look at how far we've ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a ...

EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life.

Californian company Vast is building what would be the world’s first commercial space station, which it aims to launch next ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

What happens to NASA and its operations in Florida during government shutdown? Will SpaceX rocket launches be delayed? Is ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

With Sydney to play host to the world's largest space conference this coming week, Katherine Bennell-Pegg says it is more ...