Space

Indian space officials say that a lunar rover has descended down a ramp from the lander of India’s spacecraft that has made its much celebrated touch-down near the moon’s south pole.

News stories about the lights were based on predictions by the University of Alaska’s aurora forecast. But the forecast was scaled back and activity on Thursday is now predicted to be low at best.

How do you grow plants in space? Soil from the Washington's Lower Yakima Valley could help provide some key answers.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has blasted off on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies.

The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be stuck using diapers on the way home.

The British Museum says it will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore a record-setting eight asteroids.

Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, has blasted into space and safely returned to Earth in a convergence of science fiction and science reality.

Jeff Bezos will ride his own rocket into space next month, joining the first crew to fly in a Blue Origin capsule

China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space program