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Final tests of NASA’s laser beam communication technology offer a promising new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space, including future missions to Mars.

The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon at sunset on Sept. 24, but you’ll need to be quick to spot the red planet before it slips

Marvel’s First Family is zooming into the streaming sphere with the official digital release of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” on Tuesday (Sept. 23, 2025). This superhero extravaganza comes home

The university known as the cradle of astronauts will soon send a few more folks to the final frontier. Twenty-eight alumni of Indiana-based Purdue have flown to space or been

They’ve come in peace, they’ve come for war, and sometimes they’ve come just to confuse us. Aliens in TV and film have long served as mirrors to our hopes, fears,

Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the

A striking view of the partial solar eclipse that happened on September 21 was caught not just by photographers on Earth, but also by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s

On Feb. 17, 2026, an annular solar eclipse will be visible from a remote part of Antarctica, forming a “ring of fire” for up to 2 minutes, 20 seconds as

One of NASA’s newly announced astronaut candidates already has a spaceflight under her belt. On Monday (Sept. 22), the space agency announced the 10 members of its newest astronaut class

Sub-Neptune planets, often billed as possible “water worlds,” may be more desert than deep sea, according to a new study. For years, scientists thought these planets, which are larger than