Tags: space

The sky is no longer the limit for a host of entrepreneurs who are vying to offer the first tourist trip into space. Here’s what we know about Virgin Galactic...

“Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier,” scheduled to air Monday on the Smithsonian Channel, examines how black astronauts raced into the heavens while fighting for human rights on Earth....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two...

Where does Earth’s atmosphere end and space begin? According to a new study, it might be just 50 miles above Earth — right about where the blue turns to black...

The galaxy NGC 3079, located 67 million light-years from Earth, appears to be blowing two enormous gas bubbles near its galactic center. This combined X-ray and optical light image reveals...

Since its launch in April 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found a great number of exoplanets, including a so-called «missing link.» But now, the alien planet hunter...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — 2020 may be the year a private space station gets off the ground. Two companies — Bigelow Aerospace and Axiom Space — plan to launch habitat...

Earlier this week, NASA announced that it is renaming its headquarters building in Washington D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency’s first black female engineer. “Jackson started her NASA...

Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers. Advances in the technique used to scan the atmosphere of this...

DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctica – Deep below the ice, far from the playful penguins and other animals that bring tourists to Antarctica, is a cold and barren world that by all...