Orbital transfer vehicles launch atop rockets, carrying other spacecraft that they deliver to specific, often hard-to-reach, ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

Going boldly where someone has gone before! The "Star Trek" prequel series is overflowing with characters who debuted in the ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris ...

From Jupiter’s swirling storms to Neptune’s icy depths, planets across our solar system are orbited by a fascinating cast of ...

On Episode 171 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Isaac Arthur are joined by are joined by Dr. Rick Jene with the ...

As of Friday (Aug. 15), there are 7 people aboard the International Space Station: Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov of ...

"I think it's natural to take a break and wonder whether we are fundamentally thinking about this in the wrong way." ...

In this quiz, you’ll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. Can you tell which foods ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black holes that we expect to exist from sources other than stars. They are no ...

On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika Alden DeBenedictis to discuss how terraforming Mars might work.