Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital work to decontaminate t ...

Astronomers believe they have found the mysterious forbidden void between black holes that has puzzled scientists for years.

Nancy Currie-Gregg pursued her dream of becoming an astronaut despite the Challenger disaster, flying four missions into ...

A critical fire erupted this week at a SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, while the rocket's Raptor engines were being ...

Orion’s heat shield has to endure 25,000 mph and temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit when it reenters the Earth’s ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

It’s official. Artemis II has broken Apollo 13’s distance record. The three Americans and one Canadian on Monday journeyed farther from Earth than any other humans. The previous title was ...

With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts sailed into their lunar flyby Monday, taking in ...

NASA's Artemis 2 crew officially broke the record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth this evening.