Stephen Hawking used his fame to warn humanity about its potential — and rapidly approaching — end. He provided a possible solution, but just how viable is it?

Last month’s medical evacuation was NASA’s first in 65 years of human spaceflight. One of four astronauts launched by SpaceX last summer suffered what officials described as a serious health issue, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is already racing back into deep space, but its surprise resurgence in December 2025 has turned a fading curiosity into a case that planetary scientists will be arguing over for years.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new ...

Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a science expedition aboard the ...

A major theme in communist governments is the idea of central planning. Every five years, the central authorities in communist countries lay out their goals for the country over the course of the next ...

Acolytes of "Farscape" can attest to the series' innumerable merits and it's an ideal way for Valentine's Day revelers to spend a rousing evening bingeing episodes. Astronaut John Crichton falls into ...

The Starship Enterprise has seen an array of impressive upgrades and modifications over the decades, but which of these ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...