Space & Astronomy

NASA Partners with American Companies on Key Moon, Exploration...

NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop technologies that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space for...

NASA Sets Coverage for Cargo Launch to International Space...

NASA and commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman are targeting 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, for the launch of the company’s...

Watch astronauts play new 'Space Dart' game on the ISS...

Spare time on the International Space Station sometimes involves space games, and astronauts just invented a new one.

Chandrayaan-3's moon rover mission successfully raises...

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is continuing its circuitous journey to the moon with a series of burns to raise its orbit around...

Webb Space Telescope marks 1st year of science with marvelous...

NASA released a stunning new image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex on Wednesday to mark the first year of the James Webb Space Telescope's...

Yes, solar storms are increasing, but don't lose sleep...

Non-existent NASA warnings about a months-long global internet shutdown triggered by a major solar storm in 2025 began circulating...

James Webb Space Telescope detects most distant active...

'It is still difficult to explain how it formed so soon after the universe began.'

Yusaku Maezawa Announces Eight Crew Members Flying Around...

Yusaku Maezawa (CEO, Start Today, Inc.) announced that 8 crew members and 2 backup crew members have been selected for "dearMoon",...

Space Industry Mega Gathering at India Space Congress 2023:...

The SatCom Industry Association of India (SIA-India) brings the 2nd edition of India Space Congress 2023, its annual flagship event,...

Ingenuity, a Mars helicopter, calls home after a 63-day...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has phoned home after 63 days of silence, and all appears to be well with the little rotorcraft.

One of the longest solar eclipses on Earth darkened the...

Fifty years ago, on Saturday, June 30, 1973, one of the longest total eclipses of the sun in modern times took place.

Dark nebula dominates gorgeous new view of Orion constellation

A telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona has captured a striking new view of a dark nebula called LDN 1622, located...

Mars donut! Perseverance rover spots holey Red Planet rock

NASA's Perseverance rover has spied a big, donut-shaped rock on Mars. It might be a meteorite, scientists say.

Moon in solar system has elements needed to support life:...

Scientists studying data collected by NASA's Cassini mission found Saturn's moon Enceladus has the necessary materials to make it...

Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st...

The Space Solar Power Demonstrator's MAPLE experiment was able to wirelessly transfer collected solar power to receivers in space...

The Apollo moon landing was real, but NASA's quarantine...

NASA officials overestimated their ability to contain alien microbes after the first moon landing, a new analysis suggests.

NASA, Canadian Space Agency award up to $750K to teams...

Eight winning teams located across the globe have been awarded $750,000 in prizes as a part of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency's...

Officials claim that China will send astronauts to the...

Officials with the Chinese Manned Space Agency said in a news conference on Monday that the program plans to place astronauts on the...

A quake on Mars showed its crust is thicker than Earth’s

Seismic data from NASA’s Insight lander reveal the crust is roughly 50 kilometers thick, with the northern crust being thinner than...

Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies...

A bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington...