Space is full of strange and fascinating phenomena that often outdo science fiction. Here are some bite-sized facts about our cosmos and beyond. The Moon isn’t round, it’s lemon-shaped, with bulging ...

"As the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, I worked very hard at that because I didn't want people to say, 'Oh look, the ...

Biggest Discoveries in Space Exploration: <a href=" ►25 Unanswered Questions About The Universe: Every now and then, you hear ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven ...

When Frank Rubio returns, he will have spent 371 consecutive days in space. A NASA astronaut has broken the record for the longest space mission in U.S. history. Frank Rubio, 47, who has been aboard ...

Discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022, Earendel was thought to be a star that formed merely 900 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 7% of its current age. Now, in a ...

When will Sierra Space's winged vehicle, Dream Chaser, finally take flight? Unfortunately, it's still not clear. Almost certainly, however, it won't be this year. The Dream Chaser space plane has been ...

The length of the mission wasn't disclosed, but a previous flight lasted years. A not-so-secret, secret reusable spaceplane operated by the United States Space Force is scheduled to lift off for its ...

Display case featuring both real-life and creative space-related artifacts, including board games, video game paraphernalia, and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s NASA hard hat. The “Futures in Space” ...

The space program was forged from paranoia and fear. Our first rockets were weapons. Our first moves into the world beyond our own were motivated by competition. But when we finally got ourselves into ...

"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet." It might sound hard to believe, but NASA's exoplanet count just reached 6,000 — and that's with only about 30 years of ...