Google is preparing to test a radical idea for artificial intelligence infrastructure: putting data centers in space. The company plans to launch a refrigerator-sized satellite carrying computing power equivalent to a single server as part...

A US intelligence satellite launched in 1988 has suddenly fragmented in orbit, creating a new cloud of debris about 775 kilometres above Earth. The spacecraft, known as USA 32 and identified in the catalog as...

NASA has discovered a remarkably fresh impact crater on the Moon that scientists say may be the largest newly formed crater identified anywhere in the solar system. Named McGetchin, the crater was created by a...

The United States has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has “on-orbit space control weapons”, offering one of the clearest indications yet that Washington is preparing for a more openly contested military environment...

NASA’s experiments with corn seeds aboard space shuttles in the 1990s revealed an unexpected challenge for growing plants beyond Earth: without gravity, plants can lose their usual sense of direction. The seeds were able to...

A brilliant green fireball streaked across the evening sky over New Zealand on August 30, giving skywatchers a brief glimpse of a piece of material that may have been around since the earliest days of...

NASA has successfully launched its newest space observatory, sending the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a journey that could reshape scientists’ understanding of some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. The telescope lifted off at...

Astronomers have found something that sounds almost too crowded for a single galaxy: three actively feeding supermassive black holes in the distant galaxy J0148-4214. The discovery, made using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, provides the...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary star near the center of the Milky Way that reaches speeds of about 25,000 kilometers per second—roughly 8.5% of the speed of light—as it swings close to the galaxy’s supermassive...

The Suhail star, better known to astronomers as Canopus, is set to return to the pre-dawn skies over the United Arab Emirates around August 24, 2026. For centuries, its first appearance has been used across...