Space headlines tend to cluster around the obvious: Mars missions, moon landings, and whatever JWST photographed this week.

Space has a way of humbling us, doesn't it? Just when scientists think they have a solid handle on how the universe works, a ...

2025 was an exciting year for astronomical discoveries. Scientists got the best evidence yet for past life on Mars, discovered an interstellar comet zooming through our solar system, found clues of ...

Astronomers detect the most powerful space laser from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away, offering rare insights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We learn more and more about our universe all the time, but there’s recently been a huge spike in stunning cosmic observations. An ...

A sliver of space where scientists found Segue 1, a faint dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light-years away, in 2006. Credit: Marla Geha / W.M. Keck Observatory It started with a homework assignment: A ...

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The newest generation of compact research freezers is performing well in space and have already boosted the scientific capacity of the International Space Station (ISS), said engineers at the ...

(AP) -- Bad weather delayed Discovery's homecoming Tuesday for the second day in a row, and Mission Control made one last attempt to end the 15-day space station delivery mission in Florida before ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently expressed skepticism that the Discovery shuttle would be moved to Texas, seeming to suggest that the Johnson Space Center would receive a different vehicle ...