In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Christopher Guest and Michael McKean speak with EW in character as David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel for the release of "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues." Mike Miller is the executive editor on the ...

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...

The United Nations’ General Assembly, the U.N.’s main deliberative body, starts its 80th session in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Among those who will closely follow the session’s deliberations on ...

Before a “robot dog” can fetch data on the moon or Mars, it must learn to do so on Earth. And right now, that’s exactly what’s happening in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park with a contraption ...

Min Aung Hlaing inspects space technology at the Harbin Institute of Technology on Thursday. / CINCDS Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s coup-maker and self-styled acting president, has apparently decided ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

Space Command is responsible for military operations beyond Earth's atmosphere, or about 62 miles and higher. Trump re-established Space Command in 2019 during his first term. It was originally ...

President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama in a televised address. The move reverses a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary ...