Space

Lockheed Martin will work on a "low boom" supersonic aircraft design.

Some people dream of living in Paris for a year, or even just a few months abroad. How does a year in space sound?

Check out that blue Hubble bubble.

Pluto's north pole shimmers in false color in this New Horizons photo.

The cold Milky Way is shining like a diamond in this new map.

The galaxy it came from was 6 billion light-years away.

The black holes may have been created by the death of a huge star.

Ron Garan is the new chief pilot at World View.

So, what was that strange music the astronauts heard?

Having rolled out its new space ship, Virgin Galactic now faces its biggest test yet.

The future of Virgin Galactic is looking... busy.

The private spaceflight company is ready to take to the skies again.

A record number of people applied to be astronauts this year, just as NASA prepares for the revival of America's crewed spaceflight program.

The unveiling of the new SpaceShipTwo signals the beginning of Virgin Galactic's second act after a fatal 2014 accident.

Scientists may have discovered why some asteroids appear to be missing from the cosmic pool.

The light from the Big Bang itself is helping scientists study a black hole in deep space.

"We can observe the universe in this new way; not using light, but using gravity."

So long, Philae, and thanks for the memories.

The extreme cosmic crash sounds oddly like a chirp.

Gravitational waves have raised people's hopes for the eventual development of time travel technology.

The biggest astrophysics story in decades - the detection of gravitational waves, was first revealed when journalists spotted a cake.

Scientists may have finally found evidence of gravitational waves, confirming one of Albert Einstein's boldest predictions.

Explore a Martian sand dune in a new 360-degree video from NASA.

North Korea is once again rattling nerves on the Korean Peninsula, this time by testing a rocket.

What goes up, must come down.