Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory: A team of scientists announced on Thursday, February 11, 2015 that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein's general theo...

The United Arab Emirates is planning an enormous colony on Mars, but first they are building the biggest Mars simulator right here on earth.

SpaceX successfully launched the first all-civilian crew into orbit where they’ll spend 3 days aboard a Crew Dragon capsule.

Video of SpaceX's 5.2m fairing—designed in-house by SpaceX—undergoing testing in the world's largest vacuum chamber at NASA Glenn Research Center -- Plum Brook Station. SpaceX's fairing is used to protect a satellite during launch. Separation occurs when the rocket is traveling over 4x faster than a

Private spaceflight company SpaceX has successfully landed its first-stage booster rocket on an ocean platform in the Atlantic Ocean, marking just the second time that a reusable rocket has been safely brought back to Earth.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is produced by debris from the 109P/Swift-Tuttle comet. In 2018, Perseids will peak on the night of 12 August into the morning of 13 August, starting around 10 pm local time.

SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown in South Texas Wednesday, but then exploded on the landing pad with so much force that it was hurled into the air. SpaceX did not immediately say what went wrong on the March 2021 landing in Texas.

On Monday, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a cosmic event using both gravitational wave detectors and conventional telescopes. They witnessed a kilonova, a violent, brilliant explosion that occurs when two neutron stars collide. The discovery was a massive undertaking. Thousands o...

This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which launched November 26, 2011 and it is schedule to land in Mars on August 6, 2012.

The largest diamond ever found is not on Earth, but faraway across the galaxy. It's the burned out corpse of a star named BPM 37093 only about 50 lightyears away from Earth in the region of the sky we refer to as the constellation Centaurus. The white dwarf star is a chunk of crystallized carbon t...