On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. It was the eighth space station the Soviet Union launched under its...

NASA is setting in motion a new space toilet to the International Space Station next week for astronauts to test out before it’s used on...

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it became the...

In this photo, the parts of Jupiter’s atmosphere that are at higher altitude, especially over the poles, look red as a result of...

On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a delegation to the moon. Officially known as SELENE, which is short for...

We presently know what to charge for the crewed lunar rover being developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota....

On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers detected an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time. It was the first Kuiper Belt...

White dwarfs are some of the strangest objects in the universe. The leftover cores from sunlike stars, white dwarfs live for trillions of...

Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner has captured some astonishing glimpses of Earth from above as seen from the International Space Station,...

An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets—planets that float in space without orbiting a sun—than there are...