A few days ago, I came across an astronomy popular science video that mentioned Mars can be 200 million kilometers away from Earth at its farthest point. At that moment, I almost dropped my potato ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

NASA proves laser communication works in space, sending HD video across millions of miles and paving the way for faster data from Mars.

Let's say you've picked the perfect spot for building a settlement on Mars. But this opens up some pretty nasty questions. Building…what? And building….with what? There are no trees to chop down to ...

But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits of data from the Psyche Mission about 300 million miles from Earth via laser ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

The zodiac sign of each full moon is determined by where the moon sits in the night sky in relation to the astrological wheel. Because the moon’s position changes every year, each Hunter's Moon ...

(Bloomberg) -- NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars stumbled upon rocks last year that scientists think may show signs that Mars once hosted microbial life. In a new paper published in Nature, ...

More than three years after it was first announced, a new deep space antenna is being brought online in Western Australia.

Astronomy news today is packed with discoveries about the Sun, including tiny solar loops and hidden engines that drive solar ...