But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge, weighing somewhere between 15 and 20 solar masses, but is so extended ...

Prohibitive launch costs and nascent satellite-positioning technology have historically hindered this sort of celestial drone show, but last April the Russian start-up Avant Space announced it had ...

"This milestone confirms that our space station design is technically sound and safe for astronaut crewed operations." The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies. READ MORE: A cradle of baby stars revealed in new ...

A crew has entered the International Space Station (ISS) to replace the astronauts who were stranded there for nine months. A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts on Sunday on a mission to ...

SpaceX and NASA's Crew-10 mission took off in a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday, March 14 A new crew is officially on their way to the International Space Station ...

NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are ...

The replacement crew for the International Space Station was launched late Friday, paving the way for the return home of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two NASA astronauts stuck on the space ...

Now they’ll undergo a battery of tests to find out how the longer-than-expected space stay has impacted their health. The pair left on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to ...

But when exactly is this ticking space time bomb due to blow? According to Wallace, Betelgeuse likely will burn for another 100,000 years or so. However, one paper, published in 2023, found that ...