On a clear night, the sky may seem peaceful and empty. Yet beyond the stars visible to our eyes lies a universe so vast that it is difficult to imagine. Our gal ...

Vanity Fair reports from the Capitol Hill conference, where members of a sprawling community of national security experts and ...

Apple TV+ has gradually become one of the strongest homes for science fiction on television. The streaming service has invested heavily in ambitious genre storytelling, from alternate-history space ...

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two of its most ambitious spacecraft ever built not toward Mars itself, but toward one of ...

Nasa is attempting an unprecedented mission to rescue its ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it re-enters Earth’s ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

During the 1960s, the United States prepared to fend off nuclear missile attacks from the Soviet Union—unaware that the gravest threat was not looming across the globe, but outside of Earth’s ...

The Museum’s podcast, AirSpace, is preparing a special limited series called 50 Years of Air + Space that will dive into the Museum’s history, its nearly completed renovation, and its plans for the ...

Scientists are now developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity that could take astronauts deeper into the Solar System in the 2030s, reshaping how long humans can stay in space and how ...