The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-looking spheres, possibly space debris, appeared on a beach.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the double-lobed space rock.

Following their return to Earth from a 10-day journey around the moon and back in April, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts headed to Capitol Hill.

We could see robots working on NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory out in space.

A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust.

As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, our Space.com team took a look back at American advances in space since 1776, and where we might be headed.

Could humans ever set foot on Titan, or will AI-powered humanoid robots make the voyage instead?
A U.S. Space Force mission pitting two satellites against each other has completed the organization’s first tactical intercept of an orbital target.

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.