NASA still aims to launch its Artemis 1 moon rocket on Wednesday, but a few boxes must be checked first.Engineers are working to repair minor storm damage from Hurricane Nicole.
A tiny NASA spacecraft's historic trek to the moon is over. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE probe slipped into orbit around the moon on Sunday evening, becoming the first cubesat ever to visit Earth's nearest neighbor.
Find the latest news about NASA's Artemis 1 mission, which is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than March 20, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In late 2019, the star Betelgeuse dimmed by about 60%. While it's impossible to say with certainty exactly what caused it, new research suggests that a wandering companion may have played a role.
The secretive X-37B space plane returned to Earth over the weekend after a record-breaking 908-day mission for the U.S. military. But what was it doing up there?
This week brings us the return of the famous Leonid Meteor Shower, a meteor display that two decades ago brought great anticipation and excitement to sky watchers around the world. Here's what you should expect.
This phantom region, known as the zone of avoidance, is a blank spot on our map of the universe, comprising somewhere between 10% and 20% of the night sky. The reason we can't see it — at least with standard visible light telescopes — is because the Milky Way's bulging center blocks our view of it.
The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid impact crater.
SpaceX launched two telecom satellites on Saturday, tying its own rocket reuse record in the process. It was the 14th flight for the mission's Falcon 9 rocket.
China just launched a cargo mission to its newly completed space station in preparation for a coming crewed flight. The 35-foot-long (10.6 meters) freighter docked with the Tiangong space station just over two hours later, at 11:10 p.m. EST (0410 GMT and 12:10 p.m. Beijing time on Nov. 12), Chinese space officials said
Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly has won re-election to the United States Senate in Arizona. Kelly joined NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1996, in the same class as his twin brother, Scott. Mark Kelly spent a total of 54 days off Earth across four space shuttle missions, the last of which flew in 2011.
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