Elizabeth Howell

It looks like Starfleet is literally embedded on the planet next door.

A powerful superflare could disrupt electronics across the globe, causing widespread blackouts.

A sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft spotted the probable remains of an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon last month.

Science popularizer Bill Nye told viewers of a popular late-night show that Earth is "on [expletive] fire" while lighting a globe with a blowtorch.

And they could be just the thing to explore worlds beyond Earth.

A new image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope shows what happens when two galaxies collide — an experience our own Milky Way will have in a few billion years.

With research on extraterrestrial life continuing across the world, a noted researcher from the SETI Institute launched a new tool to help researchers keep track of results.

New research suggests why Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, waited about two million years for its early-formation growth spurt.

Sizzling-hot rocks explode and ooze onto the surfaces of several extraterrestrial worlds.

The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to "touch the sun." What does that really mean though since the sun is a sizzling ball of gas?

Astronomers just captured a first-of-its-kind image of a newborn alien world — which has been developing in a nursery of dust and gas for more than 5 million years.

President Donald Trump's call this week that to create a sixth branch of the U.S. military — which he called the "Space Force" — has reopened a wider debate on the military's role in space.

Every time that space crews launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they literally follow in the footsteps of the first human in space – Yuri Gagarin.

On June 6, three people will rocket into space from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But why does this country of only 18 million people have a large space facility known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome?

What's behind his posts? Is it just another Musk prank, or is he actually serious about the idea?

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a vision: He wants to get humans to Mars as soon as possible. Is that humanity's best option?

The solar system just got a bit stranger.

As for what caused the failture, NASA engineers aren't sure yet.

For the first time, researchers re-created the high-pressure water ice likely found in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune.

The lost planet was the size of Mercury or perhaps Mars, researchers now say.

Earth received a cosmic close shave on Sunday (April 15) when a football field-size boulder passed by at half the moon's distance from our planet.

Skywatchers tonight (March 31) will be treated to the second and final Blue Moon of 2018, just on the eve of Easter. What is this type of moon, and is it actually blue?

Scientists expect that as the station burns up, it will generate huge fireballs visible from the ground.