A scientist wants to drug a piece of space rock to see if the universe has a mind of its own. Really.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

Forget everything you learned in school, space isn’t just an empty, frozen void. NASA’s Voyager probes have sent back shocking data from the absolute edge of our solar system, revealing something ...

On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar ...

Former President Barack Obama ignited a firestorm when he seemed to admit aliens were “real.” Congress has explored the topic of UAP, UFOs for years.

Groundbreaking "camera-on-a-chip" technology that was originally developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for use in space missions is ...

Check your weather forecast for clear skies, so you don't miss the spectacular astronomical events occurring throughout the ...

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Orbital Debris Assessment Report (ODAR) analysis and the observed success of commercial operators, plus the instinct to copy what worked last time, have produced modest success. Satellites are small ...

In the 1980s, sensors used to produce high-quality images for space science (including the amazing images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope) and other applications employed charge coupled device (CCD ...