Rocket Lab faces a setback after the Neutron rocket tank ruptured during key tests, casting doubt on its 2026 launch.

What would happen if aliens contacted us? It’s a longstanding question that now has at least a partial answer, after a transmission designed to mimic correspondence from an extraterrestrial ...

It was October 2020 when Timothy Olyphant proved he's the ideal guest star for your late-night talk show. Not using "seasons" to describe "installments" of a limited drama series was one such talking ...

The Earth is embraced by its oceans and seas. And so are we. We depend on them for more than half of the oxygen we breathe. Ocean currents shape the slow march of climate and the daily changes of our ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the first time that humanity sent a spacecraft to measurably change the orbit of a celestial body. The mission was also the world’s first full-scale ...

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With over 5,000 exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — discovered to date, there's a growing interest in locating which of these planets might be habitable. It's no easy matter to find a ...

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter has been more successful than anyone dared hope, lasting far, far beyond its originally planned five flights. The little helicopter recently made its 66th flight and has ...

A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit. In a recent test, NASA showed how ...