This galvanizing, can-do ethos set the tone for a generation of space exploration that seeps into pop culture to this day. Except it’s all grown more complicated. For one, the moon is now old hat.

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

NASA plans a 2028 nuclear-powered Mars mission using SR-1 Freedom and Skyfall helicopters, aiming to transform deep-space ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

Conspiracy theorists suggested they had stumbled upon a pyramid on Mars that could've been built by aliens. Scientists are ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

An image of a strange, tentacled object has been circulating online, with some comparing it to something out of a sci-fi ...

Project Hail Mary” landed in theaters this past Friday, and the movie has already begun to make waves in the box office. Adapted from science fiction Andy Weir’s novel of the same name, the ...

Getting astronauts to Mars is only half the mission — the real problem is bringing them back. NASA engineers are designing ...

Winter hiking is for the truly adventurous souls who don’t mind cold wind and the possibility of the landscape looking even ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...