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After a string of discoveries, alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to be.

Beautiful blue planets with endless oceans may be orbiting many of the Milky Way's one trillion stars. In 2016, for example, Kepler astronomers discovered planets that are unlike anything in our solar system a "water world" planetary system or

What do NASA engineers, synthetic biologists and Silicon Valley VCs do for Coachella? Throw a party to talk about colonizing space.

Space accelerator to build bridges with military — Mars in 2033 just not possible, report concludes

An experimental NASA payload from the Beresheet spacecraft might still be intact someplace on the lunar surface. Researchers plan to begin scouring the likely crash site for signs of the Lunar Retroreflector Array (LRA). The post NASA Experiment Might Hav

Today, Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Check for it in the afternoon sky.

NASA's planet-hunting TESS mission has found its first Earth-size exoplanet in a nearby star system 53 light-years from Earth. Another exoplanet, a warm mini-Neptune, was found in the same system.

Lockheed Martin has unveiled the reimagined lunar lander that will carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon. The new design was in response to NASA's accelerated timeline to return to the lunar surface by 2024.

An attempt by Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL to land its spacecraft Beresheet on the moon has failed after the lunar lander crashed.

For the first time ever, humanity has photographed a black hole, shining light on an exotic realm that had long been beyond our ken.

'Alien' lights in Norway were a NASA mission, not an extraterrestrial visit.

Samples from Ryugu's interior could lead to new insights into the early solar system

A European spacecraft has confirmed a report of methane being released from the surface of Mars.

A crewed mission to the lunar surface by 2024 is probably feasible, experts say. But it won't be easy.

The OSIRIS-REx craft traveled to asteroid Bennu last year and won't return until 2023. But the mission is already throwing up unexpected findings, like plumes of particles which are being ejected from the surface of the asteroid. The post Unexpected p

NASA scientists cooked up an alien atmosphere in their lab to solve the puzzle of "hot Jupiters."

Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in Microbiology. While only a small proportion develop symptoms, virus reactivation rates

The find is a fitting tribute to Kepler, which has discovered nearly 70 percent of all known exoplanets.

NASA'S discovery of a distant planet in the Kepler-1658 system could boost the space agency's hopes of discovering alien life but is there life on the planet Kepler 1658b?

Astronomers just discovered an object, dubbed FarFarOut, that lies 140 astronomical units from the sun. That's 140 times the Earth-sun distance, which is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers).