NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on June 30. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now
NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System moon rocket will be hauled from its launch pad back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center overnight Friday into early Saturday morning for final repairs, testing and closeouts, moving closer to liftoff later this summer after completing a fueling demonstration last month.
NASA teases JWST images, Rocket Lab launches CAPSTONE, mystery rocket’s crash site found on the Moon, how magnetars are created, ISS gets more independent from Russia and more.
A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft are on their way to orbit to help the U.S. military get better at tracking fast-moving threats.
It’s nice to have a feel-good story every once in a while, so here’s one to hold off the existential dread: the Earth isn’t likely to get flung off into deep space for at least 100,000 years. In fact, all of the Solar System’s planets are safe for that time frame, so there is good news all around, for you and your favorite planetary body.
Capable of both destruction and creation, space volcanoes are common on planets and moons throughout the solar system and beyond.
China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.
Marvel Comics releases its long-awaited "Predator" series from Ed Brisson and Kev Walker.
NASA's little CAPSTONE cubesat is making good progress on its long journey to the moon.
China has launched another in its series of Gaofen Earth observation satellites as it continues building out its space infrastructure.
A new study suggests that high-impact exercise could help astronauts limit bone loss while in space.
A hot, dry start to summer has spurred a record number of wildfires in southern Alaska, and weather satellites are tracking the development of the blazes from space.
NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars.
An amateur astronomer found a fossilized surprise in the well-studied sky near the bright Andromeda Galaxy.
SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.
July's full moon will once again be a supermoon, reaching its perigee or closest point to our planet on July 13.
Artemis Base Camp will be established in the moon's south polar region, in a to-be-determined spot that features plentiful sunlight, direct-to-Earth communications and good access to water ice.
One of the farthest active comets ever spotted will make its closest approach to Earth on July 14, and here's how you can catch the action live.
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“After Euclid’s lifetime, it will just be floating in space. What if future beings found Euclid? How would they know anything about the humanity of the people?” – Tom Kitching, lead scientist of Euclid’s VIS instrument.
The Moon waxes across the evening sky from Leo to Scorpius. The five-planet lineup in the dawn is now four. And amateur astronomers plan to be recording as Saturn's hazy moon Titan occult a star about as bright as Titan itself for most of North America.
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