Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Boeing
Boeing engineers at Cape Canaveral continue troubleshooting stuck valves in the propulsion system of the company’s Starliner crew capsule in hopes of resolving the problem — and understanding what caused it — in time to take off on an unpiloted test flight before the current launch window closes later this month.
Playmobil is launching an epic new replica of the USS Enterprise from "Star Trek" on Sept. 8 to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the sci-fi franchise's TV debut.
The Perseids, a rare eruption of nova RS Ophiuchi and a challenging dawn comet round out an amazing week of skywatching.
There’s even a world first coming to the tabletop game.
The Astro Restoration Project is now well underway towards its goal of bringing the STS-35 (and STS-67) mission hardware back to its as-flown condition.
Concentric ripples in galactic dust clouds triggered by a powerful black-hole X-ray burst can be seen in a new image released by NASA.
Live long and prosper with a collectible prop replica Medical Scanner and Hypospray set
NASA and Northrop Grumman are teaming up to launch a cargo capsule to the International Space Station today (Aug. 10) at 5:56 p.m. EDT (2156 GMT).
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You probably don’t know how close you are to today’s topic: parallax!
A mobile clean room, seen here Monday, attached to the nose cone of Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket allowed ground teams to load time-sensitive cargo into a Cygnus supply ship before its launch to the International Space Station. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now
Northrop Grumman packed last-minute cargo into a commercial Cygnus supply ship Monday on a launch pad in Virginia, putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft set for liftoff Tuesday atop an Antares rocket on a mission to the International Space Station.
NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.
Fireballs blaze through the dark night sky in this NASA footage of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi just went into outburst — its first burst in 15 years — and it's bright enough to see with the naked eye
On July 20th, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft conducted a flyby of Jupiter’s (and the Solar System’s) largest moon, Ganymede. This close pass was performed as part of the orbiter’s thirty-fourth orbit of the gas giant (Perijove 34), which saw the probe come within 50,109 km (31,136 mi) of the moon’s surface. The mission team took this opportunity to capture images of Ganymede’s using Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM).
Boeing is still hoping to achieve an August launch date for its Starliner capsule amid continuing technical problems with the spacecraft.
Northrop Grumman's next Cygnus cargo ship will launch on a journey to the International Space Station tomorrow carrying with it a bevy of research investigations and crew supplies.
Science Editor Camille Carlisle has won the Division of Planetary Science’s Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for “Rugged Worlds,” the cover story of the May 2020 issue of Sky & Telescope.
Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system and is known for its short years, long days, extreme temperatures and weird sunsets.
Hundreds of scientists with a UN panel reviewed more than 14,000 studies documenting climate change evidence, to create a new report for policymakers worldwide.
Artist Micah Johnson's animated character Aku flew to the International Space Station and back last month. Space.com caught up with Johnson to discuss the milestone and what it means.
A new NASA video showcases the whirring symphony of stars in our cosmic neighborhood.
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