Space

There's some trippy science behind the curious look of the first-ever direct observation of a black hole, released on Wednesday.

The Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first-ever photo of a black hole on Wednesday, more than 100 years since Albert Einstein theorized their existence.

Hayabusa2 was launched with a five-gram bullet and an explosive, both meant for the Ryugu asteroid 200 million miles from Earth.

The unique study by NASA, the ESA, and the German Aerospace Center will test the effects of artificial gravity on the bodies of astronauts in space.

A group of researchers discovered that Earth’s atmosphere extends almost twice the distance to the Moon after analyzing data gathered in the 1990s.

Hippocamp may have been forged by the fallout of an impact billions of years ago.

A leading explanation for the different patterns seen in Earth’s northern and southern auroras has been ruled out.

'Planet Nine' is thought to be 10 times larger than Earth, but what if it wasn't a planet at all?

SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is an observatory built onto a Boeing 747, but the government shutdown has stopped it from flying.

Mission leads are trying to reestablish contact with the Spektr-R satellite, which carries a 10-meter wide radio dish.

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have eliminated a major bottleneck in the production of plutonium-238 for deep space exploration through automation.

A new NASA study estimates that Saturn’s famous rings won’t be around forever.