KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other leaders said it makes sense to move NASA’s headquarters out of Washington D.C. and on to the Space Coast. During a press conference ...

Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, may be home to a dazzling secret hidden beneath its scorched ...

The first test flight of NASA's Artemis program lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Nov. 16, 2022. The space agency preivously vowed the program would land a woman on ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky., docked their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with the ISS at 4:57 a.m. EDT and then opened the hatch at 7:28 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032, but NASA has now reduced this chance to 0.004%. However, the chances of the asteroid hitting the moon have doubled, from 1.7 ...

After several weeks in retrograde motion, Mercury finally stations direct in Pisces, clearing the foggy haze of confusion Mercury is finally direct, and it's about time we shake off the haze!

To date, only NASA's MESSENGER mission has entered orbit around Mercury, exploring the world from 2011 to 2015. Late next year, the joint JAXA/ESA BepiColombo mission will enter orbit around ...

The NASA astronauts were stuck aboard the International Space Station for nine months instead of their planned one-week mission. Ms Williams claims they were “honoured” by the outpouring of ...

After spending months and more than $250 million campaigning to elect President Trump, Elon Musk made a call late last year to help roll out his plan for humanity’s path beyond Earth.

A group of scientists, working alongside NASA and researchers from Tōhō University in Japan, has determined a staggering timeline for the complete extinction of all life on Earth. According to ...