Mike Wall

A massive container ship's embarrassing and inconvenient predicament is visible from space.

The space ambitions of Russia and China will likely stay front and center for the U.S. military during the administration of President Joe Biden.

The International Space Station discarded a 2.9-ton pallet of used batteries on Thursday morning (March 11), the most massive object it has ever jettisoned.

We keep getting reminders that the Milky Way's planetary diversity dwarfs what we see in our own solar system.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance continues getting up to speed on the Red Planet.

Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.

The path is now much clearer for the test flight of SN9's successor, SN10.

Perseverance will attempt to land inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. A new video shows how the spacecraft’s harrowing entry, descent and landing will work.

China's first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet Wednesday (Feb. 10).

The car-size Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30 of last year, is scheduled to land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18.

The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261 should harbor a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns. But astronomers can't find it.

China's Chang'e 5 moon sample-return capsule landed in Inner Mongolia on Wednesday (Dec. 16), returning lunar rocks for the first time since 1976.

SpaceX's Starship spaceflight system just took a big step on its path to Mars.

SpaceX's first attempt to launch a Starship prototype on a high-altitude test flight ended with a last-second abort in Texas on Tuesday (Dec. 8).

China has landed on the moon again — and this time the country plans to bring home some souvenirs.

The first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s is underway.

The evidence is tentative but intriguing.

The life-hunting Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, is scheduled to land inside Jezero Crater on the afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine won't remain in the agency's lead role in the Biden administration even if asked, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report reported on Sunday (Nov. 8).

NASA has voiced "substantial concerns."

A brief look at the space policies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

OSIRIS-REx finished stowing the bits of the asteroid Bennu that it snagged last week, successfully locking the material into the spacecraft's return capsule

Astronomers are vetting a technique that could aid the hunt for Planet Nine, which some researchers think lurks undiscovered in the far outer system, way beyond Pluto's orbit.

For the first time ever, a NASA probe has performed a sample-snagging operation on an asteroid in deep space.

Two big pieces of space junk are zooming toward a close approach that will occur Thursday (Oct. 15) at 8:56 p.m. EDT (0056 GMT on Oct. 16), according to California-based tracking company LeoLabs.